social anthropology

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social anthropology

[′sō·shəl ‚an·thrə′päl·ə·jē]
The study of social organization among nonliterate peoples.

social anthropology






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I argue that that position might have its specificities, but this is a judgement from the viewpoint of British social anthropology and it neglects a more common position, that of the anthropologist at home who was trained at home as well.
Waltz's neorealism picks up where British social anthropology left off.
Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 145.
Fortes' letters also provide a chronicle of what he saw as the decline of British social anthropology in the 1970s and 80s, and in his letters he often lamented the dearth of brilliant students who had once, like Freeman himself, flocked to British universities from all over the world.
1996) From fieldwork to functionalism: Malinowski and the emergence of British social anthropology, in After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951 (London: Athlone Press), pp.
Beyond Kuper's characterisation, the framework is set by the series of accounts provided by Langham (1988), Kuklick (1991) and Urry (1993) of British social anthropology, and by the often implied contrast in My Dear Spencer between Frazer (and Tylor) at Oxford and their disciple in the field, Baldwin Spencer.

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