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Author Urry, James.

Title Before social anthropology : essays on the history of British anthropology / James Urry
Published Chur, Switzerland ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages)
Series Studies in anthropology and history, 1055-2464 ; v. 6
Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 6. 1055-2464
Contents 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
Summary 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 ethnographic research and writing, institutional change and the professionalization of practice, and the redefinition of the content and boundaries that constituted anthropology. From these changes emerged new approaches during the 1920s and 1930s resulting in the triumph of social anthropology as an intellectual, academic and professional discipline after World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-171) and index
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Subject Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Anthropology
Anthropologie
Culturele antropologie.
Anthropologie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92010749
ISBN 9781136644177
1136644172
9780203059395
0203059395