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In: Journal of educational administration & history, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 121-141
ISSN: 1478-7431
In: Methodology and history in anthropology volume 19
Title page-Difficult Folk? -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Ch 1-Introduction -- Ch 2-Why disciplinaty histories matter -- Ch 3-A tale of two departments? -- Ch 4-The Politics of disciplinary professionalisation -- Ch 5-Anthropology at the end of empire -- Ch 6-Tribes and territories -- Ch 7-How not to apply anthropological knowledge -- Ch 8-Anthropologists and 'race' -- Ch 9-Discipline on the defensive? -- Ch 10-The uses of academic identity -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds.
Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of British universities and the challenges created by
In: Finance and economics discussion series 2006-38
"I present an environment for which both outside and inside money are essential as means of payment. The key model feature is that there is imperfect monitoring of issuers of inside money. I use a random matching model of money where some agents have private trading histories and others have trading histories that can be publicly observed only after a lag. I show via an example that for lags that are neither too long nor too short, there exist allocations that use both types of money that cannot be duplicated when only one type is used. Inside money provides liquidity that increases the frequency of trades, but incentive constraints restrict the amount of output that can be traded. Outside money is immune to such constraints and can trade for higher levels of output"--Federal Reserve Board web site
In: Globalisation, societies and education, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 541-552
ISSN: 1476-7732
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 200-201
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 201-201
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Qualitative research, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 543-544
ISSN: 1741-3109