Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School

Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School

On its first publication in 1973 Adam Kuper's entertaining history of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. But his often irreverent account soon established itself as one of <EM>the</EM> introductions to anthropology.<br>Since the second revised edition was published in 1983, important developments have occurred within British and European anthropology.<br>This third, enlarged and updated edition responds to these fresh currents. Adam Kuper takes the story up to the present day, and a new final chapter traces the emergence of a modern European social anthropology in contrast with developments in American cultural anthropology over the last two decades.<br><EM>Anthropology and Anthropologists</EM> provides a critical historical account of modern British social anthropology: it describes the careers of the major theorists, their ideas and their contributions in the context of the intellectual and institutional environments in which they worked.