Participant Observers

Freddy Foks is Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is a historian of modern Britain and its empire.

Contents

Map 
Acknowledgments 
Abbreviations 

Introduction 

1. Islands and Institutions
    Anthropology in Britain and the British Empire in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century 

2. Philanthropists and Imperialists
    Indirect Rule, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of LSE Anthropology 

3. Pencils, Schemes and Letters
    Fieldwork and Pedagogy in 1930s Social Anthropology 

4. Popularising the Field
    Interwar Anthropologists on the Radio and in Literary Culture

5. From Kinship Studies to Community Studies
    ‘Race Relations’, the ‘Traditional Working-Class Neighbourhood’ and the ‘Social Network’ in 
    Post-war British Sociology 

6. The Development Decades
    The African Survey, the CSSRC and Three Approaches to Social Anthropology in the British Empire, 
    1935–1955

7. From Development Economics to the ‘Moral Economy’
   At the Margins of Anthropology, Economics and Social History in the 1950s and 1960s 

Epilogue 

Notes
Bibliography
Index