After Society

$26.49

Taxes may apply at checkout.

Preview sample

After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford

Social and cultural anthropology

Dinosaur mascot

Collection: Methodology & History in Anthropology

Language: English

Published by: Berghahn Books

Published on: 1st July 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 875 Kb

ISBN: 9781789207699


Introduction

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social sciences. Analytically, the poststructuralist critique of the notion of ‘society’ challenged a discipline that dubbed itself as ‘social’. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

Show moreShow less