Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in BritainSocial 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. |
Contents
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2 Philanthropists and Imperialists Indirect Rule the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of LSE Anthropology | 32 |
3 Pencils Schemes and Letters Fieldwork and Pedagogy in 1930s Social Anthropology | 58 |
4 Popularising the Field Interwar Anthropologists on the Radio and in Literary Culture | 80 |
5 From Kinship Studies to Community Studies Race Relations the Traditional WorkingClass Neighbourhood and the Social Network in Postwar Britis... | 102 |
6 The Development Decades The African Survey the CSSRC and Three Approaches to Social Anthropology in the British Empire 19351955 | 130 |
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