A History of Oxford Anthropology

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-348-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rivière, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Peter Rivière

Chapter 1. Origins and Survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their Role within Anthropology in Oxford 1883–1905

Christopher Gosden, Frances Larson and Alison Petch

Chapter 2. The Formative Years: the Committee for Anthropology 1905–38

Peter Rivière

Chapter 3. How All Souls got its Anthropologist

John Davis

Chapter 4. A Major Disaster to Anthropology? Oxford and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown

David Mills

Chapter 5. ‘A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius’: E–P’s Vision and the Institute, 1946–70

Wendy James

Chapter 6. Oxford and Biological Anthropology

Geoffrey Harrison

Chapter 7. Oxford Anthropology as an Extra-curricular Activity: OUAS and JASO

Robert Parkin

Chapter 8. Oxford Anthropology since 1970: through Schismogenesis to a new Testament

Jonathan Benthall

Appendix: Reflections on Oxford’s Global Links

Compiled by Wendy James

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rivière, Peter
Peter Rivière is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology of the University of Oxford and Fellow Emeritus of Linacre College, Oxford, and has held posts at London, Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Specialising in the native societies of Lowland South America and the history of the European exploration of Amazonia, his publications include, The Forgotten Frontier: Ranchers of North Brazil (1972), Individual and Society in Guiana (1984), and Absented-Minded Imperialism (1995). Most recently he has published, under the aegis of The Hakluyt Society, a two-volume edition of Sir Robert Schomburgk’s reports on his Guiana travels.