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The Building of British Social Anthropology - W.H.R. Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in The Development of Kinship Studies, 1898-1931 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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The Building of British Social Anthropology - W.H.R. Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in The Development of Kinship Studies, 1898-1931 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science, 8
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The nature of that transition to maturity a transition involving
"The acquisition of the sort of paradigm that identifies
challenging puzzles, supplies clues to their solution, and
guarantees that the truly clever practitioner will succeed")
deserves fuller discussion than it has received in this book,
particularly from those concerned with the development of the
contemporary social sciences. (Thomas S. Kuhn, 1969, Postscript to
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ) The fIrst two or three
decades of the twentieth-century represents a shadowy period in the
history of science. For most contemporary scientists, the period is
a little too far away to be the subject of a fIrst-hand oral
tradition; while at the same time it is not suffIciently remote to
have acquired the epic and oversimplifIed contour of history which
has been transformed into mythol ogy. Historians of science, by
contrast, who want to free themselves from the mythology which is
used to legitimize the present state of the discipline, are
interested in discovering what really happened, and how it was
regarded at the time. For them the nature of science in the early
twentieth-century is obscured by what they regard as its proximity
in time, and they are disturbed by a general lack of depth in
scholarly work in the area, which makes it diffI cult to see the
period in proper perspective."
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