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OverviewInformative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter RivierePublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: v. 15 Dimensions: Width: 22.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 14.50cm Weight: 0.263kg ISBN: 9781845456993ISBN 10: 1845456998 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 01 October 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Preface Introduction Peter Riviere 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 Riviere 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 IndexReviews[The volume's] virtues include giving outsiders a sense of Oxford anthropology's oral tradition.A * JRAI Oxford has arguably contributed more to our understanding of tribal societies than any other department of anthropology in the world... Through creating a virtual community, by uniting their work and their lives, by their assurance, generations of Oxford scholars have been able to make the leaps which take us into new and previously unsuspected worlds. They had the privileges, the shared zeal and the shock of similarity-with-difference which engenders true creativity and they made good use of it. * [from the Preface] [The volume's] virtues include giving outsiders a sense of Oxford anthropology's oral tradition. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute There is no doubt that Oxford has been a leading player in the discipline of anthropology. It is precisely the fact that this resounding success can be taken for granted that makes possible this deliciously indiscreet retrospective. * Books & Culture Author InformationPeter Riviere 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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