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Before social anthropology : essays on the history of British anthropology /

This volume explains aspects of British anthropology's past by placing people, events and institutions in their wider historical context. The essays follow a century of immense change from the foundation of British anthropology in the 1840s by examining a number of themes--innovations in ethnog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Urry, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chur, Switzerland ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic Publishers, Ã1993.
Colección:Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 6.
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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