'Malinowski had no sense for social organization,' Meyer Fortes complained, 'he had no real understanding of kinship or political organization.'35 Enter, or rather re-enter, Radcliffe-Brown. In 1937, the year in which Witch- craft, ...
The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised.
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.Anthropology ...
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.
Anthropology and Anthropologists: A Selection
Forty years later, this classic work has been revisited in light of recent scholarship and developments in the field.