The Expansive Moment

The focus of this book is on the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interact with the political and ideological debate of the inter-war years.

Introduction; 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930-1939: social reform in the colonies; 2. Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices; 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red; 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard; 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others; 6. The Oxford Group; 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa; 8. Personal contributions; 9. Concluding remarks; Appendices; Notes; List of references; Index.