| Description |
x,214 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. A Conversation with Charles Stafford - about Culture and Anthropology -- 2. Post-modernism, Cambridge and the Great Kalahari Debate -- 3. Culture, Identity and the Project of a Cosmopolitan Anthropology -- 4. Darwin and the Anthropologists -- 5. Psychology and Anthropology: The British Experience -- 6. Levi-Strauss and Freud: Symbols in Myths and Dreams -- 7. Audrey Richards: A Career in Anthropology -- 8. Ernest Gellner. Two Notes -- 9. South African Anthropology: An Inside Job -- 10. Machiavelli in Precolonial Southern Africa -- 11. The Death of Piet Retief |
| Summary |
Among the Anthropologists analyses the central theoretical arguments of Anthropology by turning the discipline's methods on those who practise them the anthropologists themselves. Adam Kuper explores the ethnographic and historical description of major schools and actors within Anthropology, including Darwin, Freud, Rivers, Radcliffe-Brown, Levi-Strauss and Gellner. Among the Anthropologists illuminates the historical circumstances, political forces and intellectual fashions which have shaped and continue to shape both Anthropology and its practitioners |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- H istory
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Ethnology.
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Ethnology -- Africa, Southern.
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Anthropology -- history.
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Ethnology -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Southern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001653 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| LC no. |
99014802 |
| ISBN |
0485115360 : |
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