History of British Social Anthropology

In the book, the theoretical origins were analyzed, the formation of organizational grounds and the development of various methodological directions of British social anthropology, scientific discipline, which had a significant impact on the development of global social and humanitarian knowledge. It traces the worldview of the European intellectual culture of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century (ideas of M.Zh. Condorse, Sh.L. Montesquieu, A. Ferguson, O. Kont, G, Spencer, etc), which have become a prerequisite for new science. The scientific activities of the founders of the British social anthropology standing at the positions of evolutionism, - E. B. Tylora, W. Robertson Smith, Maine, J. J. Frezer, Diffusionism - Rivers, Eliot Smith, W. Perry, structurally -Functional approach - B. K. Malinovsky, A. R. Radkliff Brown, as well as scientists who identify the theoretical appearance of British social anthropology in the second half of the twentieth century