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British functional anthropology began to emerge as a distinctive discipline shortly after World War I through the efforts of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, but it was not until after World War II that it gained an assured academic status in the universities. Compared with the two decades before World War II an enormous quantity of anthropological writing was published in the two decades after it. Within this brief period its claim to academic respectability was virtually unchallenged. By 1961 a prominent sociologist could write that "social anthropology is, among other things, a small but I think flourishing profession. The subject, like social work and unlike sociology, has prestige" (MacRae 1961:36). A few years later a pohtical scientist contrasted social anthropology favorably with sociology, declaring that unlike the latter, but like the other bona fide social sciences, social anthropology "had built up a body of knowledge which cannot readily be described as anything else" (Runciman 1965:47). Functional anthropology had barely secured its enviable academic reputation when some serious misgivings began to make themselves felt from within the established profession. In 1961 Le

Author

TALAL ASAD

Publisher

DE GRUYTER MOUTON

Published

1979

Language

EN