Background
Kuper, Adam Jonathan was born on December 29, 1941 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa. Son of Simon Meyer and Gerty (Hesselson) Kuper.
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The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity by Adam Kuper (1994-04-30)
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century by Kuper, Adam(September 28, 2014) Paperback
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Anthropologists and Anthropology: British School, 1922-72
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School
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On its first publication in 1973 Adam Kuper's entertaining history of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. But his often irreverent account soon established itself as one of the introductions to anthropology. Since the second revised edition was published in 1983, important developments have occurred within British and European anthropology. This third, enlarged and updated edition responds to these fresh currents. Adam Kuper takes the story up to the present day, and a new final chapter traces the emergence of a modern European social anthropology in contrast with developments in American cultural anthropology over the last two decades. Anthropology and Anthropologists provides a critical historical account of modern British social anthropology: it describes the careers of the major theorists, their ideas and their contributions in the context of the intellectual and institutional environments in which they worked.
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The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity by Adam Kuper (1996-10-01)
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The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
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The great debates about human origins, cultural history, and human nature confront us with two opposing images of human beings. One view emphasizes biology, the other emphasizes culture as the foundation of human behavior. In The Chosen Primate, Adam Kuper reframes these debates and reconsiders the fundamental questions of anthropology. Balancing biological and cultural perspectives, Kuper reviews our beliefs about human origins, the history of human culture, genes and intelligence, the nature of the gender differences, and the foundations of human politics.
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Changing Jamaica
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kuper (2014-09-28)
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century
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Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences.
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School by Kuper, Adam(May 12, 1996) Paperback
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School by Adam Kuper (1996-05-12)
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The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion
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Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society.
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Anthropologists and Anthropology : British School, 1922-72
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Adam Jonathan Kuper
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Bachelor, U. Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Cambridge, England, 1966; D (honours), U. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1978.
Career
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Makerere U., Kampala, Uganda, 1967-1970; lecturer in Anthropology, U. College U. London, 1970-1976; professor African Anthropology and Sociology, U. Leiden, The Netherlands, 1976-1985; professor social anthropology, head human science department, Brunel U., Middlesex, England, since 1985. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1994-1995.
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century
( Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaini...)
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The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion
(Both a critical history of anthropological theory and met...)
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School
(On its first publication in 1973 Adam Kuper's entertainin...)
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The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
(The great debates about human origins, cultural history, ...)
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School by Kuper, Adam(May 12, 1996) Paperback
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- The Chosen Primate, Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
- The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity by Adam Kuper (1994-04-30)
- Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century by Kuper, Adam(September 28, 2014) Paperback
- Anthropologists and Anthropology: British School, 1922-72
- The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity by Adam Kuper (1996-10-01)
- Changing Jamaica
- Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kuper (2014-09-28)
- Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School by Adam Kuper (1996-05-12)
- Anthropologists and Anthropology : British School, 1922-72
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century
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Married Jessica Sue Cohen, December 16, 1966. Children: Simon, Jeremy, Hannah.
