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Essays on the History of British Anthropology.

From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated in Britain in the 1840s and was well established before the rise of social anthropol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Urry, J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Studies in anthropology and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION The search for unity in British anthropology, 1880-1920; ONE Notes and Queries on Anthropology and the development of field methods in British anthropology, 1870-1920; TWO "Facts" to argument: Structure and function in the history of ethnographic writing in the British tradition, 1890-1940; THREE From Zoology to Ethnology: A.C. Haddon's conversion to anthropology; FOUR Englishmen, Celts and Iberians: The ethnographic survey of the United Kingdom,1892-1899.
  • FIVE Imperial anthropology and institutional developments in British anthropology,1890-1924SIX Radcliffe-Browne's "pronunciamentos" on anthropology and his invention of British "social" anthropology, 1913-1944; Bibliography; Index.