{"product_id":"early-anthropologists-raymond-firth-audrey-richards-lucy-mair-meyer-fortes-edmund-leach-9789383166428","title":"Early Anthropologists: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes \u0026 Edmund Leach","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alan Macfarlane\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarly Anthropologists: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach \u003c\/em\u003eis the first time a collection of interviews is being published as a book. These interviews and talks have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the five conversations and talks in this volume, are part of Social Science Press's series \u003cem\u003eCreative Lives and Works\u003c\/em\u003e. These transcriptions also form a part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences, the sciences and to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on five of England’s foremost social anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These conversations and talks are interlaced with rich ethnography and interpretations of distant civilizations and the very real practices that enable these tribal societies and cultures to thrive. There are several teaching moments in these engaging conversations which are further enriched by detailed personal experiences that the interviewees share. Sir Raymond Firth gives us an insight into his Polynesian experience, while Audrey Richards and Lucy Mair recall their days in the African hinterland. Meyer Fortes’s account of his tribal study, yet again in the African subcontinent, is mesmeric, while Sir Edmund Leach's Southeast Asian encounters are just as enthralling. Immensely riveting as conversations, this collection gives one a flavour of how tribal societies live and work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book will be of enormous value not just to those interested in learning about tribal societies and cultures, and those interested in History, Culture Studies, but also to those curious to gather knowledge about other cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616475209879,"sku":"9789383166428","price":466.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789383166428.webp?v=1769294891","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/early-anthropologists-raymond-firth-audrey-richards-lucy-mair-meyer-fortes-edmund-leach-9789383166428","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}