A history of Oxford anthropology

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2008

A history of Oxford anthropology.

Ed. by Peter Riviere.

Berghahn Books

2007

214 pages

$59.95

Hardcover

Methodology and history in anthropology

GN17

Riviere (professor emeritus, social anthropology, University of Oxford) gathers essays from administrative and chronological perspectives on the first 100 years of the study of anthropology at Oxford University. Material originated at a September 2005 workshop celebrating the centenary of the study of anthropology at Oxford. With two exceptions, all of the contributors are, or have been, closely associated with Oxford anthropology. To compensate for the book's emphasis on social anthropology, there is a chapter devoted to physical/biological anthropology, and a chapter on the Oxford University Anthropological Society and the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. Historical b&w photos are included.

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