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Anthropology after Gluckman : the Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations / Richard Werbner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werbner, Richard P., author.
- Series:
- Manchester scholarship online.
- Manchester scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gluckman, Max, 1911-1975.
- Gluckman, Max.
- Ethnology--History.
- Ethnology.
- Manchester school of economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This title places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman.
- Contents:
- Max Gluckman in South Africa : role model, early leadership
- Max Gluckman's commitments, projects and legacies
- Elizabeth Colson : home town anthropologist, systems sceptic
- Clyde Mitchell and A.L. Epstein : urban perspectives
- Relational thought, networks, circles
- Friendship, interlocking directorates, cosmopolitanism
- A.L. Epstein's enduring argument : the reasonable man and emotion
- Victor Turner's 'voyage of discovery'
- The re-analysis of Chihamba, the White Spirit
- Anthropology and the postcolonial.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 17, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526138026
- 1526138026
- 9781526155498
- 1526155494
- 9781526138019
- 1526138018
- OCLC:
- 1176454982
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