The Expansive Moment
The Expansive Moment
Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in response to key issues of the time: colonialism, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody focuses on Britain and Africa, and draws on his own wide-ranging personal fieldwork experience.
- Internationally renowned anthropologist Jack Goody writes his history of social anthropology in this century
- Confronts the conflicts between ideology and the demands of institutions in the development of social anthropology as a discipline
- Personal account of the great names in anthropology this century, beginning with Malinowski
Reviews & endorsements
"Goody sheds a new, bright light on the origins and early development of British social anthropology." Choice
"...a valuable contribution to the history of British social anthropology and thus to the general cultural history of Britain in this century....they offer a wonderfully illuminating and provocative account of a central intellectual enterprise in twentieth century Britain." Thomas William Heyck, American Historical Review
Product details
September 1995Paperback
9780521456661
244 pages
228 × 152 × 15 mm
0.465kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930–1939: social reform in the colonies
- 2. Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices
- 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red
- 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard
- 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others
- 6. The Oxford Group
- 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa
- 8. Personal contributions
- 9. Concluding remarks
- Appendices
- Notes
- List of references
- Index.
