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"Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological est...
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Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | London ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415736343 (paperback) : 9780415736336 (hardback) 0415736331 (hardback) 041573634X (paperback) |
| Index Number: | GN308 |
| CLC: | C95-156.1 |
| Call Number: | C95-156.1/K967/4th ed. |