Werbner Anthropology after Gluckman

The Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3801-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

This book 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Werbner, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Max Gluckman in South Africa: role model, early leadership
2 Max Gluckman’s commitments, projects and legacies
3 Elizabeth Colson: home town anthropologist, systems sceptic
4 Clyde Mitchell and A.L. Epstein: urban perspectives
5 Relational thought, networks, circles
6 Friendship, interlocking directorates, cosmopolitanism
7 A. L. Epstein’s enduring argument: The reasonable man and emotion
8 Victor Turner: ‘voyage of discovery’
9 The reanalysis of Chihamba the White Spirit
10 Anthropology and the postcolonial
Conclusion
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Werbner is Emeritus Professor in African Anthropology and Honorary Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester