{"product_id":"max-gluckman-paperback","title":"Max Gluckman - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHugh MacMillan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eAnalysis of A Social Situation in Modern Zululand\u003c\/em\u003e (1940-42) and of his two large monographs on the legal system of the Lozi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e Max Gluckman was the most influential of a group of social anthropologists who emerged from South Africa during the 1930s into what was essentially a new academic discipline. His description and analysis of events in real time implied a rejection of contemporary social anthropological practice, of the 'ethnographic present', and of hypothetical or conjectural reconstructions and an acceptance of the need to study 'primitive' societies in the context of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHugh Macmillan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historian who has published widely on the history of Southern Africa. He has been a research associate at the University of Oxford's Centre of African Studies and is currently a senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Social Change. His most recent publication is a short biography of Oliver Tambo (Jacana Media, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701278773344,"sku":"9781805391746","price":31.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/max-gluckman-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}