Difficult folk? a political history of social anthropology
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books
2008.
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| Series: | Methodology and history in anthropology ;
v. 19. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432230306719 |
| Summary: | How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds. Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the effort |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785336638 9781282626829 9786612626821 9780857450319 |
