After Society

João Pina-Cabral is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He was co-founder and president both of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology and of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

“[The book] tell us a lot about the development of anthropology and of a difficult period faced by universities in UK at the time resulting mainly from government policy.” • David Parkin, University of Oxford“This volume provides a valuable mix of autobiographical reflections on what it was to be a student of anthropology at Oxford at a particular time in the Institute’s history. Such reflections are all the more insightful, written as they are, by former students who by now have had largely successful (indeed very successful) careers in the discipline.” • Elizabeth Ewart, University of Oxford

• Introduction: After SocietyJoão Pina-Cabral and Glenn BowmanPart I: The Oxford Experience and BeyondChapter 1. Plodding Towards Prosopography: Oxford Anthropology from 1976 onJeremy MacClancyChapter 2. Amor Fati and the Institute of Social AnthropologyGlenn BowmanChapter 3. The Lucky Anthropologist? Becoming an Anthropologist of Japan in OxfordDolores P. MartinezChapter 4. Lost and Found in OxfordRoger JustChapter 5. Is Necessity the Mother of Invention?A. David NapierPart II: Ethnography as a VocationChapter 6. Changing Questions? Reflections on Anthropology in and out of Oxford since the 1980sDavid N. GellnerChapter 7. The Fieldwork Tradition and the Quest for Essential PerplexitiesSigne HowellChapter 8. Journeys of an Ethnographer: From Oxford to the Field and on to the ArchivesSandra OttPart III: Why Anthropology? Concluding RemarksChapter 9. Why Anthropology? Structuralism and SinceTimothy JenkinsChapter 10. From Oxford to Cambridge: Chasing the ‘Aka’Maryon McDonaldChapter 11. Mediterranean Equivoques at OxfordJoão Pina-CabralIndex