... finally Professor or Philosophy. He remained at LSE for 35 years before moving to Cambridge as William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology in 1984. In 1993, Gellner retired from Cambridge went to the Central European University in Prague where he headed the center for the study of ... began a quest to determine which area of study he wanted to pursue. He tried sociological theory, was not pleased with symbolic logic and finally decided on Social Anthropology; "a (small) tribe studying tribes by earthly immersion field work." (Stirling). "At LSE, he came into contact with the social an...

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