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Informationen zum Autor Robert J. Gordon is a professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and the University of the Free State. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books in cultural anthropology and African ethnography, including Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture; Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist: Essays on the Anthropology of Adventure; and The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass, second edition. Klappentext Robert J. Gordon is a professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and the University of the Free State. He is the author or¿editor of over a dozen books in cultural anthropology and African ethnography, including Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture; Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist: Essays on the Anthropology of Adventure; and The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass, second edition. ¿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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chronology Introduction: The Enigma of Max Gluckman 1. Making the Very Model of a Modern Liberal 2. London Calling 3. How the Guinea Pig Burnt His Own Bridge 4. Return to Oxford and Intellectual Ferment 5. Landing and Living in Livingi 6. Mary, Max, and the Mongu Masquerade 7. Getting to Grips with the Lozi 8. Running the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute 9. The Seven-Year Plan 10. The African Undertow Notes References Index
