Anthropology and British Psychiatry

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11. Letter, G.Elliot-Smith to Edwin Embree (former Secretary, then Director of Division of Studies, RF), 12/1/26. File 401AD, University College, Anthropology, 1924, 1926-1927. RF, RAC. 12. Letter, Elliot-Smith to Embree, 3/14/27. File 401AD, University College, Anthropology, 19143, 1926-1927. RF, RAC. 13. See George W. Stocking, Jr., ed., Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1983), and Ernest Gellner, 'Malinowski and the dialectic of past and present'. Times Literary Supplement, June 7, 1985. 14. B.Malinowski. Practical Anthropology. Africa, 1929, 2:22-38, p.22. 15. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, 'Memorandum on Anthropological Research: 11/17/30. Transmitted with a letter, Radcliffe-Brown to Day, 11/11/30. Folder 25, 910 Programme and Policy Anthropology Cultural, 1931-1956. RF, 3, 910, 3, RACV. It is worth examining the Memorandum in some detail as this document is the earliest clear statement from RadcliffeBrown about his perspective. His views were influential inside the RF. 16. Radcliffe-Brown, 'Memorandum: pp.3-4. RadcliffeBrown's later protestation against being labelled as a functionalist does seem rather weak in light of this document. See A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, 'On Social Structure, Presidential Adress, Journal of the RoyalAnthropological Institute, 1940, 70:1-12; and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, 'Functionalism: A Protes: American Anthropologist, 1949, 51: 320-323. 17. For example, Richard Thurnwald, Economics in Primitive Communities (London: Oxford University Press, 1932); C.G. Brown and A. McD. Hutt, Anthropology in Action (London: Oxford University Press, 1938); Monica Hunter, Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contacts with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa (London: Oxford University Press, 1936); I. Schapera, A Handbook of TswanalLaws and Custom (London: Oxford University Press 1938); and Audrew Richards, Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia (London: Oxford University Press, 1939). The Institute cooperated with the Medical Research Council in a coordinated programme of nutritional research work in the Empire In addition to Richard's book, the IIALC also devoted a special edition of Africa to problems of nutrition. See Africa, 1936, IX, 2. 18. Lucy Mair, ed., Methods of Study of Culture Contact (Oxford University Press, 1938). 19. Audrey I. Richards. The Village Census in the Study of Culture Contact. Africa, 1935, 8:20-23, p.21.