Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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