Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain - Couverture rigide

Foks, Freddy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520390326 ISBN 13 : 9780520390324

Editeur : University of California Press, 2023

Synopsis

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Freddy Foks is Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is a historian of modern Britain and its empire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520390326
• ISBN 13: 9780520390324
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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