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Anthropology after Gluckman : The Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations /

Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such distinctiveness, Richard Werbner argues, was driven by creative difference, travelling theories and innovative, interdiscip...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Werbner, Richard P. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.