The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a “Luckyman” in Africa – PDF

The Enigma of Max Gluckman, (ePub/PDF) examines one of probably the most highly effective British anthropologists of the 20th century. South African–born Max Gluckman was the initiator of what grew to become often known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a distinguished determine in the anthropology of anticolonialism and battle principle in southern Africa, and one of probably the most inventive structuralist and Marxist anthropologists of his age group. From his standing at Oxford University as a graduate scholar and lecturer to his profession at Manchester, Gluckman was identified to be variety and engaged along with his closest colleagues however hostile and brutish in his criticisms of their work if it didn’t contribute to social justice and liberal imaginative and prescient he held for the self-discipline. Conventional histories of anthropology have thought-about Gluckman as an outlier from typical British social anthropology primarily based on his occupation on the University of Manchester and his grumpy method. He was undoubtedly not the colonial gentleman typical of his British colleagues in the sector. Gluckman was deeply concerned with discipline analysis in southern Africa on the Zulus, in Barotseland with the Lozi, and in addition in relation along with his directorship of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute from 1941 to 1947, which hid his rising critique of anthropology’s strategies and ties to Western colonialism and racial domination in the subcontinent. Robert J. Gordon’s biography skillfully reconsiders the colourful life of Max Gluckman and restores his profession in the British anthropological custom.

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“A robust account of Max Gluckman’s household background and his instructional and political formation. A very charming part offers with Gluckman’s analysis in Zululand in the Nineteen Thirties.” — Adam Kuper, visiting lecturer of anthropology at Boston University and writer of Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth Century “Gordon is a distinguished scholar of the historical past of anthropology and an professional of the anecdote, who excels in bringing to mild unfamiliar and forgotten traits of the previous. In this biography, he turns his consideration to Max Gluckman, one of probably the most highly effective, however on the identical time, scandalous, anthropologists of trendy occasions. The result’s intriguing studying, which deepens our understanding of the social relations personified in anthropological work.” — Isak Niehaus, senior professor in anthropology at Brunel University London and writer of Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa NOTE: The product only contains the ebook, The Enigma of Max Gluckman in the unique ePub format. Contact us if you need a transformed PDF as nicely. No access codes are included.