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2 31(1): (2006) On the State of British Social Anthropology: in Cambridge , for example Katsuo Nawa This article provides an informal and tentative status report on British social anthropology today, largely based on my very casual participant observation of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2003 as a visiting scholar. After brief introductory remarks on the history of British social anthropology (as against American cultural anthropology) and the department, I point out two conspicuous traits of the department I observed. First, it is polycentric in that each of the three professors seems to indicate a different direction concerning the future of the department and social anthropology in general: recording, documentation and ancestor worship; transdisciplinary theoretical sophistication based on the British social anthropological tradition; and a regionally oriented advanced study unit composed of anthropologists and scholars of related disciplines. Second, the recent systematisation of the curriculum (possibly due to the audit culture ) and the internationalisation of the department seem to have lessened its particularity as a centre of British social anthropology. Even the long-established tradition of Senior Seminars seems to have been almost imperceptibly eroding. If the British tradition of social anthropology is destined to melt into the larger field of anthropology (the World, European, Anglophone, or otherwise), it might be ancestor worship on the world wide web which serves most to uphold the venerable tradition of Cambridge social anthropology qua social anthropology. * Key Words social anthropology, theories, education, seminar, tradition 87

3 Macdonald 2001; Spencer Clare Hall Visiting Fellow 5 King s College 1 Alan Macfarlane 88

4 Spencer 2000: 3 12; cf. Stocking 1995: ; 1987: LSE London School of Economics and Political Science Spencer 2000: 7 12; Hart LSE Leach 1984 Bronislaw Malinowski LSE 6 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland RAI Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth ASA Association of Social Anthropologists ASA David Mills RAI 89

5 31 1 ASA A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Fred Eggan David Schneider G. P. Mardock Mills 2003b Mary Douglas Rodney Needham Victor Turner Stanley Tambiah 10 Clifford Geertz Marshall Sahlins 90

6 Meyer Fortes Edmund Leach Provost Jack Goody Ernest Gellner St. John s Professor 3 Caroline Humphrey Marilyn Strathern Girton Mistress Faculty of Archeology and Anthropology 3 Department Archeology Biological Anthropology Social Anthropology Haddon Library Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 5 11 Professor Professor William Wyse Professorship of Social Anthropology 12 Thomas Hodson John Hutton

7 31 1 Professorship 6 Professorship of Social Anthropology Professorship of Anthropological Science Professorship of Asian Anthropology James Frazer Alfred Haddon W. H. R. Rivers Audrey Richards Reo Fortune Esther Goody Gilbert Lewis Professor Professor Keith Hart G. I. G. I. Jones Ray Abrahams Polly Hill Stratherns Bloch Kuper Parry Gudeman Hugh- Joneses Ingold Fuller Hann 2003:

8 18 A. R. Gregory Bateson W. E. Armstrong 21 3 Professor 3 3 Professor 3 Gurung Macfarlane

9 31 1 LSE SOAS Pignède 1993 Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf pdf

10 Raymond Firth Godfrey Lienhardt Fredrick Barth Philippe Descola Hagen 1987 Euro-American The Gender of the Gift Dame Mistress 9 95

11 Niklas Luhmann Bruno Latour John Law Alfred Gell Arturo Escobar Nancy Scheper-Hughes demanding sociality ritualisation Humphrey and Laidlaw

12 35 Professor of Asian Anthropology Mongolia and Inner Asia Study Unit MIASU 36 MIASU Director David Sneath Director Hildegard Diemberger MIASU MIASU MIASU 3 97

13 thinker 2 3 Anthropooly at Cambridge 98

14 MIASU 3 MIASU MPhil SAA Social Anthropological Analysis MPhil SAR Social Anthropological Research SAR SAR 99

15 SAA 1 SAR MPhil SAA MPhil SAR PhD 40 SAA 1 SAR 3 Writing-Up Seminar SAA SAR Strathern (ed.) SAA Production and Reproduction The Scope of Social Anthropology

16 43 The Scope of Social Anthropology 2 Systems of Power and Knowledge Stephen Hugh-Jones 90 1 John Middleton Sherry Ortner Maurice Bloch Mariane Ferme Michel Foucault Max Gluckman 3 Social Anthropology and the Professional Process MPhil SAR 1 Anthropology and Social Theory 90 3 Nicholai Ssorin-Chaikov 101

17 31 1 Paul Connerton Writing-Up Seminar 3 Professor Professor 102

18 EU MIASU 9.11 Jacques Derrida Martin Heidegger 48 a cosmopolitan body of teaching staff

19 Adam Kuper Kuper 1996: Jonathan Spencer Spencer 2000: Gell 1999: Senior Seminar Friday Seminar Senior Seminar 104

20 : Senior Seminar Writing-Up Seminar 56 Senior Seminar Senior Seminar Daniel Miller 105

21 Senior Seminar 5 12 Sue Benson Times Times Good University Guide 58 Senior Seminar 106

22 : 44 Watson 1984 European Association of Social anthropologist EASA EASA Kuper (ed.) 1992: ix EU 107

23 31 1 Henrietta Moore Todd Sanders Anthropology in Theory 2006 Franz Boaz Leslie White Julian Steward 10 Key Debates in Anthropology ASA Decennial Conference Douglas W. H. R

24 Claude Lévi-Strauss Renato Rosaldo Maurice Halbwachs James Clifford Research Associate 109

25 Dilli Ram Dahal SOAS Lionel Caplan Dahal 1979; 1996, Caplan 1970; 1990 Tribhuvan Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies 3 4 Edmund Leach 1984: 7 5 Goody 1995 Kuklick 1991 Kuper 1996 Stocking 1995 Stocking (ed.) Leach Max Gluckman Radcliffe-Brown Leach 1984: 20 Gluckman 7 Murdock Firth American Anthropologist Murdock 1951; Firth Gregory Bateson Malinowski cf. Kuper 1996: Sillitoe 2003 Mills 2003a Berglund 2006 Dracklé and Edgar (eds.) Tambiah Sigrid Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology Professor Caroline Humphrey 13 Hutton Meyer Fortes Christoph von Fürer- Haimendorf Stocking 1995: ; Spencer 2000: 3 Hutton Fürer-Haimendorf 15 cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/lists/ 16 Kuper 1988: Leach 1984: Malinowski Radcliffe- Brown Leach Fortes 110

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