A History of Oxford Anthropology
Title | A History of Oxford Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Rivière |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781845453480 |
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
A History of Oxford Anthropology
Title | A History of Oxford Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Rivière |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2009-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1845456998 |
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
Difficult Folk?
Title | Difficult Folk? PDF eBook |
Author | David Mills |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781845454500 |
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.
The Scope of Anthropology
Title | The Scope of Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | Laurent Dousset |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857453319 |
Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.
Anthropology and History
Title | Anthropology and History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1981 |
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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
Title | Evidence, Ethos and Experiment PDF eBook |
Author | P. Wenzel Geissler |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 085745093X |
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
History of Anthropology
Title | History of Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Anthropology |
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