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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Berghahn Books
2018, [2018]
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| Series: | Methodology and history in anthropology
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Ideas, individuals, identities and institutions
- Why disciplinary histories matter
- A tale of two departments? Oxford and the LSE
- The politics of disciplinary professionalisation
- Anthropology at the end of empire
- Tribes and territories
- How not to apply anthropological knowledge : the RAI and its "friends"
- Anthropologists and "race" : social research in post-colonial Britain
- Discipline on the defensive?
- The uses of academic identity
- Disciplining the archives
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index