HISTORY OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (COURSE CODE: SANB 2032)
FSS, Masaryk Univ. Brno
When: Winter/Autumn 2022, Thurs from 12:00 to 13:40 (CET). Where: U23
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Bronislaw Malinowski [1884-1942] Trobriand Islands

Some Readings
History and Anthropology

journal, Taylor & Francis

Haddon, A.C.1934. History of Anthropology. London: Watts & Co. (free download)
http://archive.org/details/historyofanthrop020141mbp
History of anthro series UW Press
Stocking, G.W.Jr. 2010. Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in
Self-Deconstruction. Madison: Univ of Winconsin Press. (Vol 12)
Handler, R. (ed) 2006. Central Sites, Peripheral Visions Cultural and Institutional
Crossings in the History of Anthropology. Madison: Univ of Winconsin Press. (Vol 11)
Handler, R. 2003. Significant Others Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in
Anthropology. Madison: Univ of Winconsin Press. (Vol.10)
Handler, R. (ed) 1999. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a
More Inclusive History of Anthropology. Madison: Univ of Winconsin Press. (Vol 9)
Stocking, G.W. Jr. 1996. Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian
Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition. Madison: Univ of Winconsin
Press. (Vol. 8)

British social anthropology, genealogy

Edward B. Tylor [1832-1917] (Oxon)

James George Frazer

[1854-1941](Cantab)

Robert R. Marett
[1866-943] (Oxon)

Alfred Cort Haddon

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers [1827-1900] (Oxon)

WHR Rivers

Charles Seligman

[1855-1940](Cantab) [1864-1922](Cantab) [1873-1940] (LSE)

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
[1881-1955] (Cantab, misc. Oxon)

Edvard Westermarck

[1862-1939] (LSE)

Bronislaw Malinowski]
[1884-1942] (LSE)

C. Daryll Forde E.E. Evans-Pritchard Meyer Fortes Raymond Firth
Camilla Wedgwood Audrey Richards
[1902-73] (UCL) [1902-73] (Oxon)
[1906-83](Cantab) [1901-2002](LSE) [1901-55](Cantab,LSE) [1899-1984](LSE)

Lieutenant General Augustus Henry
Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers [1827-1900]

“Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is
that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,
law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by
man as a member of society” (Tylor 1871: 1)

James George Frazer [1854-1951]

Edward B. Tylor [1832-1917]

• 1898 Torres Straits Expedition. Standing (from left to right): W.H.R. Rivers, Charles
Gabriel Seligman, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin. Seated: Alfred Cort Haddon

Bastian Herder, Goethe
Grimms

Industrial Revolution along with new developments in mobility meant:
19th Century was a time for Biology, Engineering and Ethics.
The 19th C was the century for the working class (KM & FE).
And a century of mass migration (over 60 million migrants from Europe
to the colonies and ‘new world’).
Abolition of slavery in Britain and France, 1833 (Wilberforce in Eng,
Toussaint Louverture Haiti/Fr, etc)
Evolutionary theory: C. Linnaeus [1707–78]; J.B. Lamarck [1744-1829]
Charles Darwin [1809–1882], On the Origin of Species by Means
of Natural Selection (1859)

Lewis Henry Morgan [1818–1881]
Rochester Univ.

Morgan’s work was so diverse and
respected that he was cited, not only
by Marx & Engels, but by Darwin
and Freud.
Was a government consultant on
ethnological and native American
affairs, as well as railway
developments.

German tradition:
Bastian, Hegel, Herder, Humboldt brothers, Kant, Goethe,
Grimm brothers, Schleiermacher, Wundt
Sceptical of evolutionary theory. But founded a ‘Diffusionist
school that was problematic and not esp taken notcie of
except a few important individuals such as W.Rivers (Cantab),
G Elliot Smith (Ldn).
Hylland Eriksen and Nielsen then talk of the development of
New Sociology. Interest in social forms, not culture.
Durkheim (religion, suicide), Weber (methodological
individualism)

Adolphus Peter Elkin [1891 - 1979]
https://ambassadorsart.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/a-p-elkin/

“From the early 1940’s Elkin undertook his own version of the British
‘Mass observation’ technique of relying on surveys and
correspondence with people from numerous backgrounds to compile
evidence of the need for government intervention into public morality
and workplace reforms”.

• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
• (1881 - 1955)
• Malinowski (1884 -

Fourth of Firth:

B aphical Festschrift of Sir Raymond
Raymond Firth, (1901 - 2002)