Anthropology after Gluckman : the Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations / / Richard Werbner

• Autore: Werbner Richard P.
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 363 pages)
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - History; Postcolonialism; Anthropology - Study and teaching (Higher) - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Manchester school of economics
• Soggetto non controllato: Africa; Manchester School; biography; colonialism; cosmopolitanism; intellectual history; interdisciplinarity; postcoloniality; social anthopology; sociology of knowledge
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology after Gluckman
• ISBN: 1-5261-3802-6; 1-5261-5549-4; 1-5261-3801-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812914603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Manchester scholarship online.