British Social Anthropology: the Origin, Development, and Key Concepts

• Authors: Soukup Martin

Title variants

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British Social Anthropology: the Origin, Development, and Key Concepts

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with exploration of the origin and development of the British social anthropology. The author has defined its four principal features, which he considers to be, as follows: primarily deductive orientation, focus on the research into non-European societies, emphasis on applied anthropology and absence of standardized textbooks in the branch. The study aims at major schools and paradigms; simultaneously, the author deals with the analysis of key conceptions in the discipline, which include function and social structure in the British social anthropology. He also illustrates three dominating attitudes, which emerged in the discipline, by selected male and female representatives of the British anthropology. In particular, these include the diachronous (evolutionism, diffusionism), the synchronous (functionalism, structural functionalism) and the processual (Manchester School) attitude. He also demonstrates the narrow connection between the fieldwork concept and the dominating paradigm. In the conclusion of the study, the recent trends in the British social anthropology and its current situation are addressed.

Keywords

EN

Science history; British social anthropology; scientific conceptions; function; social structure

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 246 - 257

Contributors

author

Soukup Martin