An Introduction to Social Anthropology: other people's worlds.(Review) (book review)

JOY HENDRY, An Introduction to Social Anthropology: other people's worlds. London: Macmillan, 1999, 263 pp., 42.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 333 74471 3 (hard covers), 13.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 333 74472 1 (paperback).

The books chosen for this review article show us less where /he anthropology of Africa is going than where it has been. That is not to say that these are dead texts. On the contrary, the historical emphasis, especially of the British Africanist texts, traces the personal involvement of anthropologists in African experience over many decades. It is a proud ...

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