The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Gordon Robert J. (1947-....) ;
- Editeurs : Lincoln NE London University of Nebraska Press ;
- Date d'édition : [2018]
- ISBN : 978-0-8032-9083-9
- Sujets : Anthropologues -- Biographies -- Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle, Anthropologie, Ethnologie, Africa, Southern, Great Britain, South AfricaGluckman, Max -- BiographiesGluckman
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxii-475 p.-[18] p. de pl.), : Ill., carte, jaquette ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en version électronique ; Bibliogr. p. 429-451. Notes bibliogr.. Index
Résumé
L'éditeur indique : 'The Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African-born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the anthropology of anticolonialism and conflict theory in southern Africa, and one of the most prolific structuralist and Marxist anthropologists of his generation. From his position at Oxford University as graduate student and lecturer to his career at Manchester, Gluckman was known to be generous and engaged with his closest colleagues but brutish and hostile in his denunciations of their work if it did not contribute to the social justice and activist vision he held for the discipline. Conventional histories of anthropology have treated Gluckman as an outlier from mainstream British social anthropology based on his career at the University of Manchester and his gruff manner. He was certainly not the colonial gentleman typical of his British colleagues in the field. Gluckman was deeply engaged with field research in southern Africa on the Zulus, in Barotseland with the Lozi, and also in connection with his directorship of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute from 1941 to 1947, which obscured his growing critique of anthropology's methods and ties to Western colonialism and racial oppression in the subcontinent.'