After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951

Prologue - Tylor and the reformation of anthropology centre 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 from cultural psychology to social structure - Radcliffe-Brown and the delimitation of social anthropology anthropological institutions, colonial interests and the first cohorts of social anthropologists epilogue - moment and tradition in the history of British social anthropology.