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A History of Oxford Anthropology
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Oxford has arguably contributed more to our understanding of tribal societies than any other department of anthropology in the world…Through creating a virtual community, by uniting their work and their lives, by their assurance, generations of Oxford scholars have been able to make the leaps which take us into new and previously unsuspected worlds. They had the privileges, the shared zeal and the shock of similarity-with-difference which engenders true creativity and they made good use of it." · [from the Preface]"[The volume's] virtues include giving outsiders a sense of Oxford anthropology's oral tradition." · JRAI"There is no doubt that Oxford has been a leading player in the discipline of anthropology. It is precisely the fact that this resounding success can be taken for granted that makes possible this deliciously indiscreet retrospective." · Books & CultureInformative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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