Max Gluckman

Max Gluckman (born January 26, 1911 in Johannesburg , South Africa ; † 1975 ), from Russian-Jewish parents, was a South African ethnosociologist who founded the Manchester School .

Life

Educated in Apartheid South Africa , which made social science research increasingly difficult, he initially carried out field studies (especially right-wing ethnology ) in Barotseland ( Northern Rhodesia , now Zambia ). His approaches strongly influenced the research at the then highly respected Rhodes Livingstone Institute in Lusaka , from where he was appointed professor at the University of Manchester . Since 1968 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy . In 1970 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

The Gluckman monograph Custom and Conflict in Africa is an important English contribution to the sociology of conflict and the ethnosociology of rituals .

Gluckman's numerous students include AL Epstein , Bruce Kapferer , J. Clyde Mitchell, and Victor Turner .

Fonts (selection)

• Economy of the central Barotse plain . Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Livingstone 1941.
• Rituals of rebellion in South-east Africa . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1954.
• Custom and conflict in Africa . 3. Edition. Blackwell, Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA 1991, ISBN 0-631-04840-5 .
• Politics, law and ritual in tribal society . 3. Edition. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 2012, ISBN 978-1-4128-4615-8 .

literature

• Tilman Grottian, Systems Theory Approaches by Max Gluckman , Münster / Hamburg: LIT 1994, ISBN 3-89473-645-3
• Raymond Firth : Max Gluckman, 1911-1975 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 61 , 1976, p. 479-496 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Gluckman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Max Gluckman, entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 1, 2020 .