The Building of British Social Anthropology: W. H. R. Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in The Development of Kinship Studies, 1898-1931. Studies in the history of modern science, 8by Ian LANGHAM

Ian Langham. The building of British Soc

Ian Langham. The building of British Social Anthropology: W. H. R. Rivers and His Cambridge disciples in the development of Kinship studies, 1898-1931. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: D. Reidel, 1981. xxxii + 392 pp. $72.50 (cloth), $29.50 (paper) (Reviewed by H. W. Scheffler)

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Ian Langham's purpose in this Kuhn-inspired study is to describe the process whereby "the study of kinship and social organization replace [d] the evolution of religious thought as the central thread in anthropological theory" (p. xx), at least in England between 1898 and 193 1. During this period s