![]() ![]() ![]() He is a powerful, indeed almost scandalous figure. The arguments he made are highly distinctive because they suggest that mainstream anthropological self-understanding is not correct. But Gellner was a polymath, whose training had been in philosophy, and the peculiarity of his contribution to anthropology lies in this fact : he theorized at a deep philosophical level with remarkable acuity what was involved in the practice of the discipline. Radcliffe Brown (1881-1955) that stressed the importance of extended periods of fieldwork. His own anthropological fieldwork on the saintly lineages of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco – Saints of the Atlas (1969) – firmly places him within the British tradition of social anthropology, that is, the approach created by Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) and A.R. ![]() Ernest Gellner has a very particular place in the history of anthropology. ![]()
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