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Max Gluckman (26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African-born British social anthropologist.
He grew up in South Africa, working later under the British Administration in Northern Rhodesia (esp. on the Barotse law, in what is now the Western Province, Zambia). He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He directed the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (1941-1947), before becoming the first chair of anthropology at the University of Manchester (1949)[1], where he founded what became known, including many of his Rhodes-Livingstone Institute colleagues along with his students, as the Manchester school of anthropology. One feature of the Manchester School that derives from Gluckman's early training in law was the emphasis on "case studies" involving analysis of instances of social interaction to infer rules and assumptions. He was widely known for his radio lectures on Custom and Conflict in Africa (later published in many editions at Oxford University Press), being a remarkable contribution to conflict theory.
Gluckman was a political activist, openly and forcefully anti-colonial. He engaged directly with social conflicts and cultural contradictions of colonialism, with racism, urbanisation and labour migration. Gluckman combined the British school of structural-functionalism with a Marxist focus on inequality and oppression, creating a critique of colonialism from within structuralism. In his research on Zululand in South Africa, he argued that the African and European communities formed a single social system, one whose schism into two racial groups formed the basis of its structural unity.
Bruce Kapferer described Gluckman as "perhaps the anthropologist par excellence whose own personal life, history and consciousness not only embodied some of the critical crises of the modern world but also demanded that the anthropology he imagined should confront and examine them" (in "The Crisis in Anthropology" on the occasion of the first Max Gluckman Memorial lecture.)
Gluckman was of considerable influence on several anthropologists and sociologists Lars Clausen, A. L. Epstein, Ronald Frankenberg, Bruce Kapferer, J. Clyde Mitchell, Victor Turner and other students and interlocutors. Most of them came to be known as the "Manchester School."
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He grew up in South Africa, working later under the British Administration in Northern Rhodesia (esp. on the Barotse law, in what is now the Western Province, Zambia). He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He directed the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (1941-1947), before becoming the first chair of anthropology at the University of Manchester (1949)[1], where he founded what became known, including many of his Rhodes-Livingstone Institute colleagues along with his students, as the Manchester school of anthropology. One feature of the Manchester School that derives from Gluckman's early training in law was the emphasis on "case studies" involving analysis of instances of social interaction to infer rules and assumptions. He was widely known for his radio lectures on Custom and Conflict in Africa (later published in many editions at Oxford University Press), being a remarkable contribution to conflict theory.
Gluckman was a political activist, openly and forcefully anti-colonial. He engaged directly with social conflicts and cultural contradictions of colonialism, with racism, urbanisation and labour migration. Gluckman combined the British school of structural-functionalism with a Marxist focus on inequality and oppression, creating a critique of colonialism from within structuralism. In his research on Zululand in South Africa, he argued that the African and European communities formed a single social system, one whose schism into two racial groups formed the basis of its structural unity.
Bruce Kapferer described Gluckman as "perhaps the anthropologist par excellence whose own personal life, history and consciousness not only embodied some of the critical crises of the modern world but also demanded that the anthropology he imagined should confront and examine them" (in "The Crisis in Anthropology" on the occasion of the first Max Gluckman Memorial lecture.)
Gluckman was of considerable influence on several anthropologists and sociologists Lars Clausen, A. L. Epstein, Ronald Frankenberg, Bruce Kapferer, J. Clyde Mitchell, Victor Turner and other students and interlocutors. Most of them came to be known as the "Manchester School."
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1. ^ Barth, Fredrik. 2005. "The Golden Age, 1945-1970." Pp. 32-43 in One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American anthropology, edited by F. Barth, A. Gingrich, R. Parkin, and S. Silverman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Manchester School. Notable features of the Manchester School included an emphasis on "case studies", deriving from Gluckman's early training in law and similar to methods used in law schools.
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Bruce Kapferer (b. 1940(?) in Sydney) is an Australian social anthropologist.
He was raised in Sydney, and studied anthropology at the University of Sydney. Having done field research in Kabwe (Zambia, he went on to the University of Manchester to study with Max Gluckman,
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He was raised in Sydney, and studied anthropology at the University of Sydney. Having done field research in Kabwe (Zambia, he went on to the University of Manchester to study with Max Gluckman,
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Ronald Frankenberg is a noted British anthropologist, known for his study of conflict and decision-making in a Welsh village. He was a student of Max Gluckman and a member of the Manchester School of British Social Anthropology.
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Bruce Kapferer (b. 1940(?) in Sydney) is an Australian social anthropologist.
He was raised in Sydney, and studied anthropology at the University of Sydney. Having done field research in Kabwe (Zambia, he went on to the University of Manchester to study with Max Gluckman,
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He was raised in Sydney, and studied anthropology at the University of Sydney. Having done field research in Kabwe (Zambia, he went on to the University of Manchester to study with Max Gluckman,
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James Clyde Mitchell (usually known as J. Clyde Mitchell) (21 June 1918 – 15 November 1995) was a British sociologist and anthropologist.
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Manchester School. Notable features of the Manchester School included an emphasis on "case studies", deriving from Gluckman's early training in law and similar to methods used in law schools.
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