Participant Observers

Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain

Bibliographic Data

ID19934142
AuthorsFreddy Foks (0000-0003-3499-3197, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueParticipant Observers (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520390348
OpenAlexW4317609827
Open LibraryOL46122366M
ISBN9780520390348
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Decolonization · Empire · Participant observation · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Social history (medicine) · Social science · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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