Product Description

This substantially revised and updated third edition takes the critical and historical account of British anthropology from mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, discussing the significant developments of the last ten years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #280892 in Books
• Published on: 1996-04-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Review
`Its great merit is that it not only describes satisfactorily all major developments in method, theory and controversy; it also gives much biographical and sometimes gossipy information about the persons responsible for those developments.' - British Book News

From the Back Cover
When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper's entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. As Man, the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, put it in its review of the book:`His audacity in desacrilising the godlike founding fathers of our discipline and presenting them as human beings, warts and all, has predictably roused fury in some quarters: it was nonetheless necessary and salutary action.'
During the last ten years, significant developments have occurred within British and European anthropology. In this substantially revised and updated third edition, Adam Kuper takes the story up to the the present day: with a new Preface, and a new final chapter called `An end and a beginning', he traces the emergence of a modern European social anthropology, setting it in opposition to modern developments in American cultural anthropology. The Appendix also charts contributions to the history of British social anthropology. Anthropology and Anthropologists thus provides a critical and historical account of modern British social anthropology. The author describes the careers of the major theorists, their ideas and their contributions, and analyses the intellectual and institutional context.

Customer Reviews

Kuper delivers once again
This book is another typical offering from Adam Kuper - comprehensive, entertaining and accessible. It is a must for anthropology students requiring a basic introduction to the work of the pioneers of the modern British school, namely the work of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown. Excellent.