Participant Observers – Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain: Berkeley Series in British Studies

"Participant Observers is an authoritative account of the development of British anthropology during the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing the formative role it played in shaping wider currents of thought and underscoring its significance for the development of social science."--Mike Savage, author of The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past

"This book recounts how 'social' anthropology acquired its spots and how it was disappeared just when its impact on the envisioning of society was at its height in postwar Britain. Many anthropologists historicize their own discipline, but if there were ever a case for a historian's history, this lateral--and strikingly original--account is it."--Marilyn Strathern, author of Relations: An Anthropological Account