Anthropology and Anthropologists
Subtitle: The British School in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780415736336
Subjects: Ethnology, great britain; Ethnologists
Description: "Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences"--