Max gluckman biography

Herman Max Gluckman was a South African and British social anthropologist.
Gluckman was born in South Africa in 1911.
Max Gluckman was a South African social anthropologist esteemed for his contributions to political and legal anthropology, particularly his.

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The Enigma of Max Gluckman

"If you are curious about this innovative South African anthropologist and the foundations of twentieth-century social science, let alone British social anthropology in the colonial period and after, this volume provides unique insights."—Robin Palmer, Anthropology Southern Africa

"This book offers an authoritative perspective into the life and day-to-day thoughts of the eminent anthropologist and convener of the 'Manchester School,' Max Gluckman."—Toby Leon Moorsom, International Journal of African Historical Studies

“The Enigma of Max Gluckman is a masterwork. With an eye for telling detail, Gordon has crafted a biography of Max Gluckman that reveals the deep humanity and idiosyncratic research of a pioneering anthropologist who studied community and defied convention.”—Benedict Carton, Robert T. Hawkes Professor of History at George Mason University and author of Blood from Your Children

“Robert Gordon does an excellent job

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Max Gluckman

South African anthropologist (1911–1975)

Herman Max Gluckman (; 26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African and Britishsocial anthropologist. He is best known as the founder of the Manchester School of anthropology.

Biography and major works

Gluckman was born in Johannesburg in 1911.^[1] Like many of the other anthropologists he later worked with, he was Jewish.^[2] He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand,^[3] where he obtained a BA in 1930.^[1] Although he intended to study law, he became interested in anthropology and studied under Winifred Hoernle. He earned the equivalent of an MA at Witwatersrand in 1934 and then received a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Exeter College, Oxford.^[4]

At Oxford, Gluckman's work was supervised by R.R. Marett, but his biggest influences were Radcliffe-Brown and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, who were proponents of structural functionalism. Gluckman conducted his Ph.D. research in Barotseland with the Lozi. In 1939 he joined the Rhodes-Livingstone

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“The reader will learn a lot about Max Gluckman ... The author goes into a great deal of detail about several central topics … and hits the highlights of his imposing career.”• Herbert Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Description

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Max Gluckman was the founder in the 1950s of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. He did fieldwork among the Zulu of South Africa in the 1930s and the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia/Zambia in the 1940s. This book describes in detail his academic career and the lasting influence of his Analysis of A Social Situation in Modern Zululand (1940-42) and of his two large monographs on the legal system of the Lozi.

From the Introduction:
Max Gluckman was the most influential of a group of social anthropologists who emerged from So