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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
Named Person: | Max Gluckman; Max Gluckman |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard P Werbner |
ISBN: | 152613800X 9781526138002 |
OCLC Number: | 1224151736 |
Description: | xi, 363 pages 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction1 Max Gluckman in South Africa: role model, early leadership 2 Max Gluckman's commitments, projects and legacies3 Elizabeth Colson: home town anthropologist, systems sceptic 4 Clyde Mitchell and A.L. Epstein: urban perspectives5 Relational thought, networks, circles6 Friendship, interlocking directorates, cosmopolitanism7 A. L. Epstein's enduring argument: The reasonable man and emotion8 Victor Turner: 'voyage of discovery'9 The reanalysis of Chihamba the White Spirit10 Anthropology and the postcolonial ConclusionBibliography -- . |
Responsibility: | Richard Werbner. |
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'Discussing the failings as well as the achievements of the Manchester School, this book is a welcome invitation to rethink how anthropology was influenced by a group of people with a dedication to understanding the complexity of post-World War II colonial and postcolonial challenges.'American Anthropologist -- . Read more...

