The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa / Robert J. Gordon.
The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa / Robert J. Gordon.
The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa / Robert J. Gordon.
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
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G 2020/1745
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xxii, 475 pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: The enigma of Max Gluckman -- Making the very model of a modern liberal -- London calling -- How the guinea pig burnt his own bridge -- Return to Oxford and intellectual ferment -- Landing and living in Livingi -- Mary, Max, and the Mongu masquerade -- Getting to grips with the Lozi --...
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
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Nebraska
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[2018]
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"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 proli...
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The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa / Robert J. Gordon.
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Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-451) and index.
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G 2020/1745
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74VKaDEZj8oy
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9780803290839
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305.800968
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991024298710902626
