Margaret Mead Amongst the Natives of Great Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4848153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Mandler (0000-0003-0619-171X, Canisius College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 204 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 195-233 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtp022 |
| PMID | 22454967 |
| OpenAlex | W2316612882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
While anthropology is often thought of as the study of simple, homogeneous, so-called ‘primitive’ cultures, from the very beginnings of its modern development it was also always concerned with the complex, highly differentiated cultures within which the discipline itself grew. Fieldwork, the distinctive research tool of modern anthropology, necessarily involves researchers in comparisons between simple and complex cultures after they return home, as the very first fieldworkers discovered on returning to Britain from the Torres Strait Islands in 1899. Beyond this comparative impulse, however, anthropology's disciplinary development in the first half of the twentieth century took place in a context in which a whole range of new social sciences — including sociology, psychology, economics and political science — were bidding for public attention and funds, by offering insights and instruments to policymakers in the most developed countries, particularly during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Anthropology was not — or certainly did not intend to be — an exception
Genealogy · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |