Participant Observers

Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain

AvFreddy Foks

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Berkeley Series in British Studies
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520390331

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Freddy Foks is Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is a historian of modern Britain and its empire.

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“Fascinating and very readable.”

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsMap Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Islands and InstitutionsAnthropology in Britain and the British Empire in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century 2. Philanthropists and ImperialistsIndirect Rule, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of LSE Anthropology 3. Pencils, Schemes and LettersFieldwork and Pedagogy in 1930s Social Anthropology 4. Popularising the FieldInterwar Anthropologists on the Radio and in Literary Culture5. From Kinship Studies to Community Studies‘Race Relations’, the ‘Traditional Working-Class Neighbourhood’ and the ‘Social Network’ in Post-war British Sociology 6. The Development DecadesThe African Survey, the CSSRC and Three Approaches to Social Anthropology in the British Empire, 1935–19557. From Development Economics to the ‘Moral Economy’At the Margins of Anthropology, Economics and Social History in the 1950s and 1960s Epilogue NotesBibliographyIndex