Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts
Jeremy Macclancy
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA
“A critical insider, Jeremy MacClancy celebrates maverick anthropologists who transgressed academic frontiers, and urges his colleagues to engage the public. This is an entertaining, original, and provocative book.”
Adam Kuper, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge
“Jeremy MacClancy insightfully expands the history of anthropology beyond the confines of the academy, showing us how a collection of poets, popularizers, critics, surrealists, neo-Freudians, and iconoclast savants shaped anthropology’s imagination.”
David Price, St Martin’s University,Washington
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA
This detailed survey of the evolution of anthropology in Britain is also a spirited defence of the public ... Read more
MacClancy is guided by the notion that anthropology’s continued dynamism requires an alliance of interests, popular and academic, that will recover marginalized studies and recognize the value of contributions from outside the university research community. Its synthesis of diverse topics illuminates an anthropology that enriches the popular cultural discourse and serves as a versatile tool for exploring pressing issues of social organization and development. The reframed narrative of British anthropological history that emerges is as integral to the future of the subject as it is informative about its past.
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