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Participant Observers
Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain
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Participant Observers
Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain
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Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Map
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Islands and Institutions, Anthropology in Britain and the British Empire in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
- 2. Philanthropists and Imperialists, Indirect Rule, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of LSE Anthropology
- 3. Pencils, Schemes and Letters, Fieldwork and Pedagogy in 1930s Social Anthropology
- 4. Popularising the Field, Interwar Anthropologists on the Radio and in Literary Culture
- 5. From Kinship Studies to Community Studies, âRace Relationsâ, the âTraditional Working-Class Neighbourhoodâ and the âSocial Networkâ in Post-war British Sociology
- 6. The Development Decades, The African Survey, the CSSRC and Three Approaches to Social Anthropology in the British Empire, 1935â1955
- 7. From Development Economics to the âMoral Economyâ, At the Margins of Anthropology, Economics and Social History in the 1950s and 1960s
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index