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Participant observers : anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain / Freddy Foks.

By: Foks, Freddy, 1989- [author.]Series: Berkeley series in British studies ; 22Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520390324; 9780520390331Subject(s): Ethnology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Economic development -- Great Britain -- 20th century | National characteristics, British | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Participant observersDDC classification: 306.0941/0904 LOC classification: GN308.3.G7 | F65 2023
Contents:
Islands and institutions : anthropology in Britain and the British empire in the first decades of the twentieth century -- Philanthropists and imperialists : indirect rule, the Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of LSE anthropology -- Pencils, schemes and letters : fieldwork and pedagogy in 1930s social anthropology -- Popularising the field : inter-war anthropologists on the radio and in literary culture -- From kinship studies to community studies in postwar Britain -- The development decades : The African survey, the CSSRC and three approaches to social anthropology in the British Empire, 1935-1955 -- From development economics to the 'moral economy' : at the margins of anthropology, economics and social history in the 1950s and 1960s.
Summary: "By the 1950s, social anthropologists were at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and the limits to economic development in Britain and the British Empire. This book explains how anthropology rose to such prominence and how its influence dispersed across the humanities and social sciences. Part institutional history of social anthropology's imperial formation, part cultural history of the discipline's impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's midcentury intellectual culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islands and institutions : anthropology in Britain and the British empire in the first decades of the twentieth century -- Philanthropists and imperialists : indirect rule, the Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of LSE anthropology -- Pencils, schemes and letters : fieldwork and pedagogy in 1930s social anthropology -- Popularising the field : inter-war anthropologists on the radio and in literary culture -- From kinship studies to community studies in postwar Britain -- The development decades : The African survey, the CSSRC and three approaches to social anthropology in the British Empire, 1935-1955 -- From development economics to the 'moral economy' : at the margins of anthropology, economics and social history in the 1950s and 1960s.

"By the 1950s, social anthropologists were at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and the limits to economic development in Britain and the British Empire. This book explains how anthropology rose to such prominence and how its influence dispersed across the humanities and social sciences. Part institutional history of social anthropology's imperial formation, part cultural history of the discipline's impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's midcentury intellectual culture"-- Provided by publisher.