How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too
often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge
production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book
redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on
archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern
of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly
worlds. Focusing on the field of social anthropology in
twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual,
departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and
influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw
Malinowski, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further
their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with
the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social
problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history
situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of
British universities and the challenges created by the end of
Empire.
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