Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain Volume 22

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.

Author: Freddy Foks
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780520390331
ISBN10: 0520390334
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- History | Europe | Great Britain | 20th Century

About the Author
Freddy Foks is Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is a historian of modern Britain and its empire.