anthropology's course was given more precise coordinates

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An example of an extended metaphor:

"In the interwar years, Malinowski changed all this. If anthropology was already charting its course as a professional field-based study when he worked in the Trobriand Islands, back at the London School of Economics during the 1920s he set out to determine its coordinates more precisely."

Frances Larson (2021) Undreamed Shores. The hidden heroines of British anthropology. London: Granta

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.