Social AnthropologySocial Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the twentieth century. |
Contents
THE SCOPE OF THE SUBJECT | 1 |
THEORETICAL BEGINNINGS | 21 |
LATER THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS | 43 |
FIELDWORK AND THE EMPIRICAL TRADITION | 64 |
MODERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES | 86 |
APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY | 109 |
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Social Anthropology Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard,European Association of Social Anthropologists Limited preview - 1962 |
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