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"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 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"--
Ethnology --- Anthropologists --- Gluckman, Max, - 1911-1975
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Anthropologists --- Ethnology --- Scientists --- Gluckman, Max, --- Gluckmann, Herman Max,
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Political anthropology --- Political sociology --- Social conflict --- Gluckman, Max,
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Ethnological jurisprudence --- Comparative law --- Law, Primitive --- Ethnologie juridique --- Droit comparé --- Gluckman, Max, --- Droit comparé --- Customary law --- Droit coutumier --- Law, Primitive - Africa --- Gluckman, Max, - 1911-1975 --- Customs (Law) --- Folk law --- Traditional law --- Usage and custom (Law) --- Social norms --- Common law --- Time immemorial (Law) --- Comparative jurisprudence --- Comparative legislation --- Jurisprudence, Comparative --- Law, Comparative --- Legislation, Comparative
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This title 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.
Ethnology --- Manchester school of economics. --- History. --- Gluckman, Max, --- Africa. --- Manchester School. --- biography. --- colonialism. --- cosmopolitanism. --- intellectual history. --- interdisciplinarity. --- postcoloniality. --- social anthopology. --- sociology of knowledge. --- Postcolonialism. --- Anthropology --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History
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Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced by twentieth-century theories of ritual, often misinterpret medieval documents that ostensibly describe such events, in part because they fail to appreciate the intentions behind them.The book begins with four case studies whose arrangement--backward from texts on tenth-century kingship to fourth-century representations of Christian martyrdom--allows for the line of development to be peeled back layer by layer. It then turns to an analysis of the formation of the intellectual traditions that contemporary historians have employed to interpret medieval documents. Tracing the emergence of the concept of ritual from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century, Buc highlights the continuities yet also the profound transformations between the early medieval understandings and our own, social-scientific models.Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval documents how ''rituals'' might have functioned. Ultimately, he argues, too swift an application of contemporary models to highly complex textual artifacts blinds us to the specificities of early medieval European political culture.
Ritual --- Rituel --- History. --- Histoire --- Europe --- Religious life and customs. --- Politics and government --- Vie religieuse --- Politique et gouvernement --- -Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- History --- -History --- Cult --- Annals of Fulda. --- Bavaria. --- Bonald, Louis de. --- Byzantine model. --- Canossa. --- Charlemagne. --- Chinese Rites controversy. --- David (typology). --- Egypt. --- Enlightenment. --- Gluckman, Max. --- absolutism. --- acclamations. --- adventus. --- amicitia. --- antiquarianism. --- asylum. --- autocracy. --- baptism. --- bishops, powers of. --- blindness. --- caritas. --- change. --- charity. --- cingulum militare. --- circus games. --- civil society. --- cognition. --- community and hierarchy. --- consensus. --- crisis. --- curses. --- danger. --- democracy. --- despotism and ceremonial. --- distinction. --- divination. --- drug or opium. --- dualism. --- ecclesia. --- enthronement. --- ethological models. --- exegesis. --- feast of fools. --- fetishism. --- genuflections. --- gladiator. --- handshake. --- hegemony. --- hermeneutics. --- humiliation rituals. --- hypocrisy.
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