Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain Volume 22 Foks Freddy
Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain Volume 22 Foks Freddy Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society,…
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Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain Volume 22 Foks Freddy
Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole.
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 Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain.