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SUMMARY:Constructing the field: power\, persona and paper tools - Freddy F
 oks (Faculty of History)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:How did inter-war social anthropologists go about trying to un
 derstand a 'whole society'? This paper draws on archival sources to reveal
  the research methods\, political contexts and inter-personal relations th
 at contributed to the construction of 'the field' in East and Central Afri
 ca during the 1930s. By doing so\, the paper contributes to a long-running
  discussion carried on by historians\, philosophers and anthropologists ab
 out the nature of observation and understanding in the modern social scien
 ces. The paper argues that knowledge produced 'in the field' led to the fo
 rmation of a distinctive and authoritative scholarly persona in the Britis
 h social sciences (the figure of the 'social anthropologist'). This person
 a was constituted by extending the lessons learnt at Bronislaw Malinowski'
 s seminar at the LSE into the politically and socially uneven terrain of B
 ritain's African colonies.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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