Difficult Folk?: A Political History of Social Anthropology
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds.Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84545-465-4
- EAN: 9781845454654
- Produktnummer: 16113527
- Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 343 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 19
- Gewicht: 343
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David Mills is University Lecturer in Pedagogy and the Social Sciences at the University of Oxford. He previously held anthropology lectureships at Oxford, Manchester and Birmingham. His publications include Anthropology and Time (co-edited with Wendy James), Teaching Rites and Wrongs (co-edited with Mark Harris), and African Anthropologies: History, Practice and Critique (co-edited with Mwenda Ntarangwi and Mustafa Babiker).
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