Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro, Christine Winter (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-970-3 (ISBN)

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Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

Geoffrey Gray is Adjunct Professor at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.

Prologue

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Establishing Social Anthropology in the Antipodes

Chapter 2. Anthropology at Sydney: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and A.P. Elkin

Chapter 3. Australasian Anthropology and the Second World War

Chapter 4. ‘A Matter of Reproach to New Zealand’: Auckland University College, 1949

Chapter 5. ‘The Brightest of His Generation’: Siegfried Frederick Nadel, Foundation Professor of Anthropology, the Australian National University

Chapter 6. Finding a Successor to A.P. Elkin, 1955

Chapter 7. Expansion: Anthropology at the University of Western Australia

Chapter 8. A Successor to S.F. Nadel

Chapter 9. Sydney Again

Conclusion

Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-970-2 / 1800739702
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-970-3 / 9781800739703
Zustand	Neuware