This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual
contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most
significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century. Max
Gluckman was the founder in the 1950s of the Manchester School of
Social Anthropology. He did fieldwork among the Zulu of South
Africa in the 1930s and the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia/Zambia in the
1940s. This book describes in detail his academic career and the
lasting influence of his Analysis of A Social Situation in Modern
Zululand (1940-42) and of his two large monographs on the legal
system of the Lozi. From the Introduction: Max Gluckman was the
most influential of a group of social anthropologists who emerged
from South Africa during the 1930s into what was essentially a new
academic discipline. His description and analysis of events in real
time implied a rejection of contemporary social anthropological
practice, of the ‘ethnographic present’, and of hypothetical or
conjectural reconstructions and an acceptance of the need to study
‘primitive’ societies in the context of the modern world.
General
Imprint: |
Berghahn Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Anthropology's Ancestors |
Release date: |
March 2024 |
Authors: |
Hugh Macmillan
|
Dimensions: |
203 x 127mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
148 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80539-172-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-80539-172-0 |
Barcode: |
9781805391722 |
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