The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa /

Gordon, Robert J., 1947-

The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa / Robert J. Gordon. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : the enigma of Max Gluckman -- Making the very model of a modern liberal -- London calling -- How the guinea pig burnt his own bridge -- Return to Oxford and intellectual ferment -- Landing and living in Livingi -- Mary, Max, and the Mongu masquerade -- Getting to grips with the Lozi -- Running the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute -- The seven year plan -- The African undertow.



9781496207432 9781496207456


Gluckman, Max, 1911-1975.


Ethnology--Africa, Southern.
Ethnology--Great Britain.
Anthropologists--South Africa--Biography.


Electronic Books.

GN21 / .E554 2018