Replicating the Transition?

Abstract

Social science displayed little interest in the societies which now form the Third World until the period after the Second World War. There had, of course, been a great deal in the way of anthropological investigation of parts of some of these societies, but the social structures which were to emerge as the new nations in the 1950s and 1960s had generally not been studied as social wholes. (Some, very limited, exceptions must be made for Latin America, which had been independent since the early nineteenth century.)