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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479935003321

Autore

Werbner Richard P.

Titolo

Anthropology after Gluckman : the Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations / / Richard Werbner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5261-5549-4

1-5261-3801-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 363 pages)

Collana

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Ethnology - History

Manchester school of economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This title places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman.