Description
| Product ID: | 9780520390324 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Berkeley Series in British Studies |
| Title: | Participant Observers |
| Subtitle: | Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Dr. Freddy Foks |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-14 |
