The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-282-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to address, namely, problems such as change, conflict, deviance, and individual choice.

Edited by two students of Gluckman, the volume comprises reprinted pieces by Gluckman and his colleague Clyde Mitchell, a Coda by Mitchell’s student, Bruce Kapferer, contributions by Gluckman’s students and/or friends and colleagues, including Ronnie Frankenberg, Kapferer, Evens, Handelman, and Sally Falk Moore, as well as a number of contributions from other practitioners of the extended case. Apart from the reprinted pieces by Gluckman and Mitchell, all the contributions have been written for this volume. These essays, historical, theoretical, and ethnographical, serve to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evens, T. M. S. (Terry)

Handelman, Don

Fachgebiete

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Ethnographic Praxis of the Theory of Practice

T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman

SECTION I: THEORIZING EXTENDED CASES

Preface: Theorizing the Extended-Case Study Method

T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman

Chapter 1. Ethnographic Data in British Social Anthropology

Max Gluckman

Chapter 2. Case and Situation Analysis

J. Clyde Mitchell

Chapter 3. An Ontology for the Ethnographic Analysis of Social Processes: Extending the Extended-Case Method

Andreas Glaeser

Chapter 4. Some Ontological Implications of Situational Analysis

T. M. S. Evens

Chapter 5. The Extended Case: Interactional Foundations and Prospective Dimensions

Don Handelman

Chapter 6. Situations, Crisis, and the Anthropology of the Concrete: The Contribution of Max Gluckman

Bruce Kapferer

SECTION II: HISTORICIZING EXTENDED CASES

Preface: Historicizing the Extended-Case Method

T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman

Chapter 7. Made in Manchester? Methods and Myths in Disciplinary History

David Mills

Chapter 8. History of the Manchester ‘School’ and the Extended-Case Method

Marian Kempny

Chapter 9. A Bridge over Troubled Waters, or What a Difference a Day Makes: From the Drama of Production to the Production of Drama

Ronald Frankenberg

SECTION III: CASE STUDIES

Preface: Extended-Case Studies—Place, Time, Reflection

T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman

Chapter 10. The Workings of Uncertainty: Interrogating Cases on Refugees in Sweden

Karin Norman

Chapter 11. The Vindication of Chaka Zulu: Retreat into the Enchantment of the Past C.

Bawa Yamba

Chapter 12. The Politics of Ethnicity as an Extended Case: Thoughts on a Chiefly Succession Crisis

Björn Lindgren

Chapter 13. From Tribes and Traditions to Composites and Conjunctures

Sally Falk Moore

Epilogue

Bruce Kapferer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Evens, T. M. S. (Terry)
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his Ph.D. in 1971 at Manchester University. He is author of Two Kinds of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), and co-editor of Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (JAI Press, 1990). His work reflects an abiding interest in the philosophical underpinnings of anthropology.

Handelman, Don
Don Handelman, Sarah Allan Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. He has published Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events (Berghahn Books, 1998) and Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events (Berg 2004). He is the coauthor with David Shulman of Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge (Oxford, 2004), and the coeditor with Galina Lindquist of Ritual in Its Own Right: Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation (Berghahn Books, 2004).

T. M. S. (Terry) Evens, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his Ph.D. in 1971 at Manchester University. He is author of Two Kinds of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), and co-editor of Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (JAI Press, 1990). His work reflects an abiding interest in the philosophical underpinnings of anthropology.