1st Edition
Before Social Anthropology Essays on the History of British Anthropology
By James Urry
Copyright 1993
188 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
188 Pages
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First Published in 1993. From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated in Britain in the 1840s and a broadly based general anthropology was well established before the rise of social anthropology. The essays in this volume explore... Read more
Preface; INTRODUCTION: The search for unity in British anthropology, 1880–1920; Section 01 : Notes and Queries on Anthropology and the development of field methods in British anthropology, 1870-1920; Section 02 : “Facts” to argument: Structure and function in the history of ethnographic writing in the British tradition, 1890–1940; Section 03 : From Zoology to Ethnology: A.C. Haddon’s conversion to anthropology; Section 04 : Englishmen, Celts and Iberians: The ethnographic survey of the United Kingdom, 1892–1899; Section 05 : Imperial anthropology and institutional developments in British anthropology, 1890–1924; Section 06 : Radcliffe-Browne’s “pronunciamentos” on anthropology and his invention of British “social” anthropology, 1913–1944; Bibliography; Index;
Biography
Dr James Urry is a Reader in Anthropology at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
