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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807148803321

Titolo

Functionalism historicized : essays on British social anthropology / / editor, George W. Stocking, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1984

ISBN

1-282-69744-7

9786612697449

0-299-09903-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) : portraits

Collana

History of anthropology ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

StockingGeorge W., Jr. <1928-2013.> (George Ward)

Disciplina

306/.0941

Soggetti

Functionalism (Social sciences) - History

Ethnology - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1.  Functionalism Historicized -- 2. The Functional Reduction of Kinship in the Social Thought of John Locke / Thomas de Zengotita -- 3. Robertson Smith and James Frazer on Religion: Two Traditions in Birtish Social Anthropology / Robert Alun Jones -- 4. Tribal Exemplars: Images of Political Authority in British Anthropology, 1885-1945 / Henrika Kuklick -- 5. Englishmen, Celts, and Iberians: The Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom, 1892-1899 / James Urry -- 6. Dr. Durkheim and Mr. Brown: Comparative Sociology at Cambridge in 1910 / George W. Stocking, Jr. (Editor) -- 7. Radcliffe-Brown and British Social Anthropology / George Stocking, Jr. -- 8. Function, History, Biography: Reflections on Fifty Years in the British Anthropological Tradition / Hilda Kuper -- 9. Miscellaneous Studies: From Philology to Anthropology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany / James Whitman -- Information for Contributors -- Index.