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Participant Observers : Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain /

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 soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foks, Freddy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]
Colección:Berkeley Series in British Studies ; 22
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Islands and Institutions
  • Chapter 2 Philanthropists and Imperialists
  • Chapter 3 Pencils, Schemes and Letters
  • Chapter 4 Popularising the Field
  • Chapter 5 From Kinship Studies to Community Studies
  • Chapter 6 The Development Decades
  • Chapter 7 From Development Economics to the 'Moral Economy'
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index