"We each embark on two life journeys - one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, the eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life's extremes - indi…
Writing the self : a genealogy -- Anthropology's forgotten founders -- The anti-colonial intellectuals : thinking new worlds -- I come from manchester -- The escalator : grammar school and Cambridge -- An African apprenticeship -- The development industry -- Learning to fly in A…
"We each embark on two life journeys - one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, the eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life's extremes - indi…
"We each embark on two life journeys - one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, the eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life's extremes - indi…
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A World Destroyed -- 2 From Nietzsche to the Antipodes -- 3 Australia and the Science of Man -- 4 Eugenics and the Science of Population -- 5 Becky and the Nazis -- 6 'My dear cousin Clementine' …
George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name, Pitt-Rivers appeared to be …