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UNINA9910812100703321 |
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Autore |
MacClancy Jeremy |
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Titolo |
Anthropology in the Public Arena : Historical and Contemporary Contexts |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology - Great Britain - History |
Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History |
Anthropology - Great Britain - Methodology |
Anthropology -- Great Britain -- Methodology |
Anthropology - Great Britain - Philosophy |
Anthropology -- Great Britain -- Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Beating the Bounds of Discipline? Innovation at the Margins and Beyond; Anthropology for Beginners; Past Imperfect, Present Tense; Bring Out Your Dead; Sketching a History of Anthropology, Popular or Otherwise; Anthropology as adventure: From reformists to Frazer, via the Aran Islands; Malinowski's moment; Postwar positioning: Withdrawal from the forum; Anthropology Foxed; Anthropology Netted, and Other Pagan Practice; Contrasts, Continuities; Notes |
2: John Layard, "Study of a Failure": An Innovative Integrated Approach from the PsychoanalystA Life; Stone Men; Diffusing Jung; The Psyche in British Academic Society; Notes; 3: Geoffrey Gorer, "Britain's Margaret Mead": Blending Anthropology and Travelogue; A Life; Africa Sells, Bali Too; Low Living on High Ground? Gorer Does Fieldwork; Allying Anthropology and Neo-Freudianism for the Allies; Keeping Busy; Gorer, Mead, Love, Sex; How to Straddle the Academic and the Popular, Mead-Style; Kinship at the Core: Gorer's Relations with British Anthropologists; Gorer Lives?; Notes |
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4: Robert Graves: Empowering Anthropological Modes of Explanation in Myth and RitualA Life; Rivers, Graves, the Trenches, the Underworld; Goddesses, Muses, and Other Modes of Thought; Magic, Witchcraft, and Other Gravesian Modes of Thought; Anthropologica; Academe, the Poet, and the Popular; The Perils of Collaborating with Charisma; Anthropologists, Academic and Otherwise; Of the Poker- and the Po-Faced: Graves, His Critics, and His Co-Believers; Notes; 5: Mass Observation: A Radical, Popular Ethnography of the People, by the People, and for the People; A Democratic Surrealism |
A Day in the LifeGoing Bush in Bolton; Observing Mass Observation; Assessing Mass Observation; From MO to PoMo; Notes; 6: The Literary Image of the Anthropologist; A Note on Terminology, and a Caveat; Character; Fieldwork; Function; No Time for a Conclusion?; Notes; 7: Parting Comments: Public Interest, Multiple Anthropologies; Note; Bibliography; Archives; Interviews; Books, Articles; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This articulate and authoritative survey of both the popular and academic trends in anthropology demonstrates the broad relevance of anthropological knowledge and argues for a more inclusive conception of the discipline that engages the public imagination. Demonstrates the evolving social contexts of British anthropological theory and practice from the mid-19th centuryHighlights the importance of popular anthropology in forming and sustaining the professional disciplineExplores the past and present cross-fertilization of anthropologists, scientists and prominent |
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