Among the anthropologists : history and context in anthropology / Adam Kuper.

  • Kuper, Adam.
Date:
1999
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press, 1999.

Physical description

x, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Contributors

Contents

A conversation with Charles Stafford-about culture and anthropology -- Post-modernism, Cambridge and the great Kalahari debate -- Culture, identity and the project of a cosmopolitan anthropology -- Darwin and the anthropologists -- Psychology and anthropology: The British experience -- Lʹevi-Strauss and Freud: symbols in myths and dreams -- Audrey Richards: a career in anthropology -- Ernest Gellner: two notes -- South African anthropology: an inside job -- Machiavelli in precolonial southern Africa -- The death of Piet Retief.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BU /KUP
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ISBN

  • 0485115360