British social anthropology: A retrospective

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-24

  Spencer, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British social science; British universities; History; Seminars; Sociocultural anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040436703     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.1     Document Type: Article

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