Radcliffe-Brown

Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

AvIsak Niehaus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker and a sharp critic of colonialism. Radcliffe-Brown engaged strategically with colonial authorities to further the interests of his discipline and invoked scientific credentials to critique central aspects of colonial rule. His struggle for intellectual autonomy and advocacy of a comparative sociological approach speaks to many contemporary concerns.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Methodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805397687

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Biografier inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Isak Niehaus teaches social anthropology at Brunel University London. He has previously published Witchcraft, Power and Politics (Pluto Press, 2001), Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).

Recensioner i media

“I found this book absolutely outstanding. It is admirable in its commitment to what must have been a decade-long process of research and writing and refreshing in its methodological quest for scholarly rigour.” • Andrew Bank, University of the Western Cape

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Makings of an Aristocratic Anarchist, 1881-1905Chapter 2. Fieldwork in the Andamans and Western Australia, 1906-1912Chapter 3. Writing Anthropology from the Margins, 1912-1919Chapter 4. Marketing Anthropology in South Africa, 1919-1925Chapter 5. A Bohemian in Sydney, 1926-1931Chapter 6. Debates in Chicago, 1931-1936Chapter 7. Oxford in Wartime, 1937-1945Chapter 9. A Restless Retirement, 1946-1955ConclusionAppendicesReferencesIndex