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Anthropology after Gluckman : the Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations / Richard Werbner.

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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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