Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

AvGeoffrey Gray,Doug Munro

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Methodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781800739703

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Geoffrey Gray is Adjunct Professor at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.

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“This is an erudite eye-opening account of key appointments which shaped Antipodean anthropology. Three prominent Pacific historians scour the academic undergrowth to illuminate the politics of electing Chairs. It makes extensive (indeed, mind-boggling) use of primary sources in public and private archives, as well as interviews to bring clarity to the politics of senior appointments within a nuanced appreciation of context.” • Robert Gordon, University of Vermont

Innehållsförteckning

PrologueAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Establishing Social Anthropology in the AntipodesChapter 2. Anthropology at Sydney: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and A.P. ElkinChapter 3. Australasian Anthropology and the Second World WarChapter 4. ‘A Matter of Reproach to New Zealand’: Auckland University College, 1949Chapter 5. ‘The Brightest of His Generation’: Siegfried Frederick Nadel, Foundation Professor of Anthropology, the Australian National UniversityChapter 6. Finding a Successor to A.P. Elkin, 1955Chapter 7. Expansion: Anthropology at the University of Western AustraliaChapter 8. A Successor to S.F. NadelChapter 9. Sydney AgainConclusionEpilogueReferencesIndex