Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930–1939: social reform in the colonies; 2. Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices; 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red; 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard; 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others; 6. The Oxford Group; 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa; 8. Personal contributions; 9. Concluding remarks; Appendices; Notes; List of references; Index.

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Jack Goody's analysis of the history and ideology of social anthropology in Britain and Africa.

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"Goody sheds a new, bright light on the origins and early development of British social anthropology." Choice "...a valuable contribution to the history of British social anthropology and thus to the general cultural history of Britain in this century...they offer a wonderfully illuminating and provocative account of a central intellectual enterprise in twentieth century Britain." Thomas William Heyck, American Historical Review