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oapen-20.500.12657-275172021-11-10T08:27:10Z Difficult Folk? Mills, David Anthropology Twentieth Century Britain Social problems Scholarly autonomy Rivalries bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds. Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of British universities and the challenges created by 2018-11-01 23:55:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T11:55:53Z 2020-04-01T11:55:53Z 2008-05-01 book 1002490 OCN: 1083014676 9781785336638;9781785336638 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27517 eng application/pdf n/a 1002490.pdf Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctv8mdn66 101647 10.2307/j.ctv8mdn66 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785336638;9781785336638 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101647 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds.
Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of British universities and the challenges created by
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