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Richard Werbner is Emeritus Professor in African Anthropology and Honorary Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester
This book 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.
Introduction1 Max Gluckman in South Africa: role model, early leadership2 Max Gluckman's commitments, projects and legacies3 Elizabeth Colson: home town anthropologist, systems sceptic4 Clyde Mitchell and A.L. Epstein: urban perspectives5 Relational thought, networks, circles6 Friendship, interlocking directorates, cosmopolitanism7 A. L. Epstein's enduring argument: The reasonable man and emotion8 Victor Turner: 'voyage of discovery'9 The reanalysis of Chihamba the White Spirit10 Anthropology and the postcolonialConclusionBibliography