After Tylor : British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951

Illustrations xi(2) Preface xiii(6) Acknowledgments xix Prologue: Tylor and the Reformation of Anthropology 3(12) 1. Center and Periphery: Armchair Anthropology, Missionary Ethnography, and Evolutionary Theory 15(32) Lorimer Fison and the Search for Primitive Promiscuity 17(17) Robert Henry Codrington: Melanesian Mana and Evolutionary Categories 34(10) Missionary Ethnography and Paradigm Change 44(3) 2. Animism, Totemism, and Christianity: A Pair of Heterodox Scottish Evolutionists 47(37) Andrew Lang: From Tylorian Folklore to Primitive Monotheism 50(13) William Robertson Smith and the Merry Sacrificial Feast of Totemism 63(18) The Revolt against Positivism and the Revolution in Anthropology 81(3) 3. From the Armchair to the Field: The Darwinian Zoologist as Ethnographer 84(40) Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen: Getting down to Bedrock in Central Australia 87(11) Alfred Cort Haddon and the Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits 98(17) The "Cambridge School" and the Redefinition of "Intensive Study" 115(9) 4. The Frazerian Moment: Evolutionary Anthropology in Disarray 124(55) James Frazer and The Golden Bough: From Magic to Religion to Science 126(25) Edward Westermarck: Marriage and Morals in Human Evolution and in Morocco 151(12) Robert Marett and the Magico-Religious: The "Laws of Association" and the "Will to Believe" 163(9) The Early Critique of Frazerian Assumption 172(7) 5. The Revival of Diffusionist Ethnology: Rivers and the Heliolithic School 179(54) W.H.R. Rivers: From the Evolution of Sensory Perception to the Diffusion of Primitive Social Organization 184(24) Elliot Smith, William Perry, and the Children of the Sun 208(12) A.M. Hocart: The Boasian Ethnographer as Frazerian Diffusionist 220(8) Neo-Diffusionism and the Revolution in Anthropology 228(5) 6. From Fieldwork to Functionalism: Malinowski and the Emergence of British Social Anthropology 233(65) Rivers and the Rapprochement of Anthropology and Psychology 235(9) From Cracow to the Trobriands: The Rider Haggard and the Joseph Conrad of Anthropology 244(24) Functionalist Forays toward a Scientific Theory of Culture 268(23) The Emergence of the Functional School of Anthropology 291(7) 7. From Cultural Psychology to Social Structure: Radcliffe-Brown and the Delimitation of Social Anthropology 298(69) "Anarchy Brown" in the Andamans and Australia: The Evolution of Totemism and the Function of Survivals 304(19) A. Radcliffe Brown and the Emergence of Social Anthropology in South Africa 323(16) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and the Social Organization of Australian Tribes 339(13) "R-B" among the Boasians: From the Comparative Science of Culture to the Natural Science of Society 352(9) Bronio and Rex: From Pure to Hyphenated Functionalism 361(6) 8. Anthropological Institutions, Colonial Interests, and the First Cohorts of Social Anthropologists 367(60) The Institutions of British Anthropology in the Era of the New Imperialism 369(13) The Dual Mandate and the Emergence of Government Anthropology 382(9) Rockefeller Funding and Functionalist Social Anthropology 391(15) The Implementation and the Fate of Practical Anthropology 406(15) From Culture Contact to Social Structure 421(6) Epilogue: Moment and Tradition in the History of British Social Anthropology 427(18) Notes 445(32) References Cited 477(52) Manuscript Sources 529(4) Oral Sources 533(2) Index 535