Manchester School of Anthropology
The Manchester School of Anthropology is an interactionist branch of British ethnology (ethnology, also social anthropology ) that originated from the University of Manchester . It includes the scientists Max Gluckman , J. Clyde Mitchell , Victor Turner and Bruce Kapferer .
From the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute of Social Research in Lusaka ( Northern Rhodesia , today Zambia ), the most important representatives all carried out their work in southern Africa, especially in today's Zambia. In the Copperbelt there, for example , they were primarily concerned with the dramatic social change that became apparent early on in this area of mining and smelting of copper and cobalt .
They also vigorously criticized British colonialism and laid a foundation for ethnicity research .
She worked on the conflict-sociological ambivalence of harmonizing ritualism and conflicting interaction . Conflict orientation and litigation were therefore particular highlights of her studies in southern Africa in the middle of the British colonial era. They took the view that the old principle of British functionalism, coined by Bronisław Malinowski , could no longer be upheld, that only the present counted and processes and historical changes were to be put aside as secondary.
The Manchester School was the first time in the history of British social anthropology ( Ethnosociology ) to round, even on local factors (namely those of colonialism) to be included in their studies, and began to examine global systems in their interaction with the local structures.
The term Manchester Anthropology used to include loyalty to a group as well as to a certain lineage, and in the beginning even to Max Gluckman's favorite football team, Manchester United .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Wim van Binsbergen: Photographic essay: Manchester School and background. ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Own website, February 6, 2008, accessed on November 2, 2014.
