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Book SynopsisANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA A critical insider, Jeremy MacClancy celebrates maverick anthropologists who transgressed academic frontiers, and urges his colleagues to engage the public. This is an entertaining, original, and provocative book.
Adam Kuper, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge
Jeremy MacClancy insightfully expands the history of anthropology beyond the confines of the academy, showing us how a collection of poets, popularizers, critics, surrealists, neo-Freudians, and iconoclast savants shaped anthropology's imagination.
David Price, St Martin's University,Washington
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA
This detailed survey of the evolution of anthropology in Britain is also a spirited defence of the public as well as professional role of the discipline. The author argues for a broader vision of the value of anthropological knowledge that allows for the creative contributions of popular scientists and literary figures
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
1 Beating the Bounds of Discipline? Innovation at the Margins and Beyond 1
2 John Layard, “Study of a Failure”: An Innovative Integrated Approach from the Psychoanalyst 58
3 Geoffrey Gorer, “Britain’s Margaret Mead”: Blending Anthropology and Travelogue 81
4 Robert Graves: Empowering Anthropological Modes of Explanation in Myth and Ritual 110
5 Mass Observation: A Radical, Popular Ethnography of the People, by the People, and for the People 135
6 The Literary Image of the Anthropologist 158
7 Parting Comments: Public Interest, Multiple Anthropologies 184
Bibliography 193
Index 228
