Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthopology (Volume 2) (History of Anthropology)

" This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. There are a wide range of historical skills on display, from traditional textual analysis to historical sociology of the most sophisticated sort, and there is a more or less thorough chronological coverage from the era of classical evolutionism virtually up to the present. One can only hope that historicizing anthropologists will sample some of these wares."— Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Contents 6 1. Functionalism Historicized 10 2. The Functional Reduction of Kinship in the Social Thought of John Locke / Thomas de Zengotita 17 3. Robertson Smith and James Frazer on Religion: Two Traditions in Birtish Social Anthropology / Robert Alun Jones 38 4. Tribal Exemplars: Images of Political Authority in British Anthropology, 1885-1945 / Henrika Kuklick 66 5. Englishmen, Celts, and Iberians: The Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom, 1892-1899 / James Urry 90 6. Dr. Durkheim and Mr. Brown: Comparative Sociology at Cambridge in 1910 / George W. Stocking, Jr. (Editor) 113 7. Radcliffe-Brown and British Social Anthropology / George Stocking, Jr. 138 8. Function, History, Biography: Reflections on Fifty Years in the British Anthropological Tradition / Hilda Kuper 199 9. Miscellaneous Studies: From Philology to Anthropology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany / James Whitman 221 Information for Contributors 238 Index 240

This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. There are a wide range of historical skills on display, from traditional textual analysis to historical sociology of the most sophisticated sort, and there is a more or less thorough chronological coverage from the era of classical evolutionism virtually up to the present. One can only hope that historicizing anthropologists will sample some of these wares.-Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

" This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. There are a wide range of historical skills on display, from traditional textual analysis to historical sociology of the most sophisticated sort, and there is a more or less thorough chronological coverage from the era of classical evolutionism virtually up to the present. One can only hope that historicizing anthropologists will sample some of these wares."—__Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences__