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Abstract This article presents a historical genealogy of EASA and European anthropology. Performing a heuristic exercise of ethnographic epoché, it critically examines European anthropologists’ writings on European anthropology and EASA as they appear in different statements and accounts, especially in the Association's newsletters and reports of its conferences, understanding these documents as praxeologically embedded in anthropologists’ everyday production of knowledge. Drawing on the sociology of critique and the concept of boundary-work, it argues that EASA created its own ‘space of critique’, funnelling previous discussions on European anthropology, and becoming a platform for its production and its contestation as a site for the production of ‘hierarchies of knowledge’. Those contestations reflect an original and longstanding tension between EASA's inclusive cosmopolitan aspiration and the exclusionary practice of boundary-work.

Adam Kuper, professor of anthropology at Brunel University, is interviewed. Kuper explores the connections between the social history and politics of his native South Africa and the intellectual development of anthropology from his perspective.

Reviews the special issue, in memory of Godfrey Lienhardt, of the \"Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford\" (Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1997, 141p, £8.50), 28:1, which was edited by Ahmed al-Shahi and Jeremy Coote. Also reviews the following books: (1) \"The Expansive Moment: Anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970,\" by Jack Goody (Cambridge University Press, 1995, 242p, £37.50); (2) \"Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa,\" by Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham (University of Chicago Press, 1994, 345p, $17); (3) \"An Introduction to Social Anthrpology: Other People's Worlds,\" Joy Hendry (Macmillan, 1999, 263p, £42.50); (4) \"Among the Anthropologists: History and Context in Anthropology,\" by Adam Kuper (Athlone, 1999, 224p, £45); (5) \"Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion,\" by Ioan M. Lewis (Athlone, 1999, 184p, £45).

Imagine if we were suddenly to dispense with the word `culture' and all its derivatives. Politicians could no longer describe modest reforms as cultural revolutions, business people would have to abandon their self-serving references to the distinctive culture of IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and booksellers would have to rip out the thousands of feet of shelf space they devote to cultural studies. It's a development that might have pleased Raymond Williams, who once bitterly declared: `I don't know how many times I've wished that I'd never heard the damned word.' But it would probably afford even more satisfaction to anthropologist, Adam Kuper, whose recent book, Culture: An Anthropologists' Account (Harvard University Press), was devoted entirely to the ubiquitous term.

Walter Goldschmidt reviews 'The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion,' by Adam Kuper.

\"The Social Science Encyclopaedia (2nd ed)\" edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper is reviewed.

Chalcraft reviews \"The Social Science Encyclopedia (2nd edition)\" edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper.

Salter reviews The Social science encyclopedia edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper.