Abstract
Drawing on the correspondence between Frank Girling and Ramkrishna Mukherjee, this article discusses the ways in which they were excluded from the British anthropology establishment because of their politics and their suspected links with decolonisation movements.
This article was written at the request of Rila Mukherjee for a special issue of the Journal of the Asiatic Society (Kolkata) in honour of her father, Ramkrishna Mukherjee.
This article formed the basis for part of Tim Allen's introduction to The Acholi of Uganda by Frank Girling and Okot P'Bitek, as part of the Classics in African Anthropology series.
This article was written at the request of Rila Mukherjee for a special issue of the Journal of the Asiatic Society (Kolkata) in honour of her father, Ramkrishna Mukherjee.
This article formed the basis for part of Tim Allen's introduction to The Acholi of Uganda by Frank Girling and Okot P'Bitek, as part of the Classics in African Anthropology series.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 13-30 |
| Journal | Journal of the Asiatic Society (Kolkata) |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Ramkrishna Mukherjee
- Rila Mukherjee
- Frank Girling
- anthropology
- decolonisation
- Marxism
- anti-communism
- Cold War
- McCarthyism
- Uganda
- Acholi
- Evans-Pritchard