Radcliffe-Brown

Isak Niehaus teaches social anthropology at Brunel University London. He has previously published Witchcraft, Power and Politics (Pluto Press, 2001), Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Makings of an Aristocratic Anarchist, 1881-1905Chapter 2. Fieldwork in the Andamans and Western Australia, 1906-1912Chapter 3. Writing Anthropology from the Margins, 1912-1919Chapter 4. Marketing Anthropology in South Africa, 1919-1925Chapter 5. A Bohemian in Sydney, 1926-1931Chapter 6. Debates in Chicago, 1931-1936Chapter 7. Oxford in Wartime, 1937-1945Chapter 9. A Restless Retirement, 1946-1955ConclusionAppendicesReferencesIndex

“I found this book absolutely outstanding. It is admirable in its commitment to what must have been a decade-long process of research and writing and refreshing in its methodological quest for scholarly rigour.” • Andrew Bank, University of the Western Cape