Social Anthropology developed in Britain after the first world war as a separate and highly distinctive discipline. For thirty years social anthropology was almost exclusively a British speciality but after the second world war this pattern was broken with American social anthropologists growing more numerous and influential.
Reprinting key volumes from the Association of Social Anthropologists (and others) this set brings together works by distinguished authors and covers a range of issues including the study of political systems, religion, and the utilization of models and of complex societies.