Radcliffe-Brown

Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

Isak Niehaus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-768-7 (ISBN)

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Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1995) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker and a sharp critic of colonialism. Radcliffe-Brown engaged strategically with colonial authorities to further the interests of his discipline and invoked scientific credentials to critique central aspects of colonial rule. His struggle for intellectual autonomy and advocacy of a comparative sociological approach speaks to many contemporary concerns.

Isak Niehaus teaches social anthropology at Brunel University London. He has previously published, Witchcraft, Power and Politics (Pluto Press, 2001), Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Makings of an Aristocratic Anarchist, 1881-1905

Chapter 2. Fieldwork in the Andamans and Western Australia, 1906-1912

Chapter 3. Writing Anthropology from the Margins, 1912-1919

Chapter 4. Marketing Anthropology in South Africa, 1919-1925

Chapter 5. A Bohemian in Sydney, 1926-1931

Chapter 6. Debates in Chicago, 1931-1936

Chapter 7. Oxford in Wartime, 1937-1945

Chapter 9. A Restless Retirement, 1946-1955

Conclusion

Appendices

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-768-0 / 1805397680
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-768-7 / 9781805397687
Zustand	Neuware