A History of Oxford Anthropology [Paperback]

Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.

Peter Rivièreis Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology of the University of Oxford and Fellow Emeritus of Linacre College, Oxford, and has held posts at London, Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Specialising in the native societies of Lowland South America and the history of the European exploration of Amazonia, his publications include,The Forgotten Frontier: Ranchers of North Brazil(1972),Individual and Society in Guiana(1984), andAbsented-Minded Imperialism(1995). Most recently he has published, under the aegis of The Hakluyt Society, a two-volume edition of Sir Robert Schomburgk’s reports on his Guiana travels.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface

Introduction
Peter Rivi?re

Chapter 1.Origins and Survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their Role within Anthropology in Oxford 18831905
Christopher Gosden,Frances LarsonandAlison Petch

Chapter 2.The Formative Years: the Committee for Anthropology 190538
Peter Rivi?re

Chapter 3.How All Souls got its Anthropologist
John Davis

Chapter 4.A Major Disaster to Anthropology? Oxford and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
David Mills

Chapter 5.A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius: EPs Vision and the Institute, 194670
Wendy James

Chapter 6.Oxford and Biological Anthropology
Geoffrey Harrison

Chapter 7.Oxford Anthropology as an Extra-curricular Activity: OUAS and JASO
Robert Parkin

Chapter 8.Oxford Anthropology since 1970: through Schismogenesis to a new Testament