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Titolo: | A history of Oxford anthropology / / edited by Peter Rivière |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina: | 301.0942574 |
Soggetto topico: | Anthropology - England - Oxford - History |
Persona (resp. second.): | RivièrePeter |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Origins and Survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their Role within Anthropology in Oxford 1883–1905 -- 2. The Formative Years: the Committee for Anthropology 1905–38 -- 3. How All Souls got its Anthropologist -- 4. A Major Disaster to Anthropology? Oxford and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown -- 5. ‘A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius’: E-P’s Vision and the Institute 1946–70 -- 6. Oxford and Biological Anthropology -- 7. Oxford Anthropology as an Extra-curricular Activity: OUAS and JASO -- 8. Oxford Anthropology since 1970: through Schismogenesis 155 to a New Testament -- Appendix: Reflections on Oxford’s Global Links -- Bibliography -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A history of Oxford anthropology |
ISBN: | 0-85745-521-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822503803321 |
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