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Author Mills, David, 1969- author.

Title Difficult folk? : a political history of social anthropology / David Mills.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2018]

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Series Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 19
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index.
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.
Summary 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 Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of British universities and the challenges created by the end of Empire.
Note PDF (JSTOR, viewed December 10, 2018).
Subject Ethnology -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Ethnology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnologie -- Aspect politique -- Grande-Bretagne.
Ethnologie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Ethnology
Ethnology -- Political aspects
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Added Title Political history of social anthropology
ISBN 9781785336638 (electronic bk.)
1785336630 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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