The Expansive Moment
The rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918–1970
- Author: Jack Goody, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: September 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521450485
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Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in response to key issues of the time: colonialism, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody focuses on Britain and Africa, and draws on his own wide-ranging personal fieldwork experience.
Read more- Internationally renowned anthropologist Jack Goody writes his history of social anthropology in this century
- Confronts the conflicts between ideology and the demands of institutions in the development of social anthropology as a discipline
- Personal account of the great names in anthropology this century, beginning with Malinowski
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"Goody sheds a new, bright light on the origins and early development of British social anthropology." Choice
See more reviews"...a valuable contribution to the history of British social anthropology and thus to the general cultural history of Britain in this century....they offer a wonderfully illuminating and provocative account of a central intellectual enterprise in twentieth century Britain." Thomas William Heyck, American Historical Review
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- Date Published: September 1995
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521450485
- length: 244 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 156 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.473kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930–1939: social reform in the colonies
2. Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices
3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red
4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard
5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others
6. The Oxford Group
7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa
8. Personal contributions
9. Concluding remarks
Appendices
Notes
List of references
Index.
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