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A History of Oxford Anthropology
Peter Riviere (Ed.)
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Description for A History of Oxford Anthropology
Hardback. Offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. Editor(s): Riviere, Peter. Num Pages: 14 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; JHM; JNMN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Oxford has arguably contributed more to our understanding of tribal societies than any other department of anthropology in the world. Through creating a virtual community, by uniting their work and their lives, by their assurance, generations of Oxford scholars have been able to make the leaps which take us into new and previously unsuspected worlds. They had the privileges, the shared zeal and the shock of similarity-with-difference which engenders true creativity and they made good use of it. (from the Preface by Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University). Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the ... Read more
Oxford has arguably contributed more to our understanding of tribal societies than any other department of anthropology in the world. Through creating a virtual community, by uniting their work and their lives, by their assurance, generations of Oxford scholars have been able to make the leaps which take us into new and previously unsuspected worlds. They had the privileges, the shared zeal and the shock of similarity-with-difference which engenders true creativity and they made good use of it. (from the Preface by Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University). Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845453480
SKU
V9781845453480
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99-15
About Peter Riviere (Ed.)
Peter Riviere is 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), ... Read more
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Oxford has arguably contributed more to our understanding of tribal societies than any other department of anthropology in the world...Through creating a virtual community, by uniting their work and their lives, by their assurance, generations of Oxford scholars have been able to make the leaps which take us into new and previously unsuspected worlds. They had the privileges, the shared ... Read more