Center and periphery - armchair anthropology, missionary ethnography and evolutionary theory animism, totemism and Christianity - a pair of heterodox Scottish evolutionists from the armchair to the field - the Darwinian zoologist as ethnographer the Frazerian moment - evolutionary anthropology in disarray the revival of diffusionist ethnology from fieldwork to functionalism - Malinowski and the emergence of British social anthropology anthropological institutions, colonial interests and the first cohorts of social anthropologists.
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