The Expansive Moment: The rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970

by Jack Goody

Overview

Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in response to key issues of the time: colonialism, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody focuses on Britain and Africa, and draws on his own wide-ranging personal fieldwork experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521450485
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/10/1995
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930–1939: social reform in the colonies; 2. Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices; 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red; 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard; 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others; 6. The Oxford Group; 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa; 8. Personal contributions; 9. Concluding remarks; Appendices; Notes; List of references; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Goody sheds a new, bright light on the origins and early development of British social anthropology." Choice

"...a valuable contribution to the history of British social anthropology and thus to the general cultural history of Britain in this century....they offer a wonderfully illuminating and provocative account of a central intellectual enterprise in twentieth century Britain." Thomas William Heyck, American Historical Review

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