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

Jack Goody

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Aug 10th, 1995
  • Pages: 244
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.98in - 6.01in - 0.58in - 0.92lb
  • EAN: 9780521456661
  • Categories: Anthropology - Cultural & Social

Praise for this book

"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