Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School

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Author: Adam Kuper (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

Number of Pages: 246

When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper’s entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. As Man , the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, put it in its review of the book: His audacity in desacrilising the godlike founding fathers of our discipline and presenting them as human beings, warts and all, has predictably roused fury in some quarters: it was nonetheless necessary and salutary action.’ During the last ten years, significant developments have occurred within British and European anthropology. In this substantially revised and updated third edition, Adam Kuper takes the story up to the the present day: with a new Preface, and a new final chapter called An end and a beginning’, he traces the emergence of a modern European social anthropology, setting it in opposition to modern developments in American cultural anthropology. The Appendix also charts contributions to the history of British social anthropology. Anthropology and Anthropologists thus provides a critical and historical account of modern British social anthropology. The author describes the careers of the major theorists, their ideas and their contributions, and analyses the intellectual and institutional context.