The Manchester School
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The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

  1. 348 pages
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The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

About this book

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to address, namely, problems such as change, conflict, deviance, and individual choice.

Edited by two students of Gluckman, the volume comprises reprinted pieces by Gluckman and his colleague Clyde Mitchell, a Coda by Mitchell's student, Bruce Kapferer, contributions by Gluckman's students and/or friends and colleagues, including Ronnie Frankenberg, Kapferer, Evens, Handelman, and Sally Falk Moore, as well as a number of contributions from other practitioners of the extended case. Apart from the reprinted pieces by Gluckman and Mitchell, all the contributions have been written for this volume. These essays, historical, theoretical, and ethnographical, serve to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits.

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Information

Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781845452827
eBook ISBN
9780857458582

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Prologue
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: Ethnography Data in British Social Anthropology
  7. Part II: Case and Situation Analysis
  8. Section I: Theorizing Extended Cases
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 Some Ontological Implications of Situational Analysis
  11. Chapter 2 An Ontology for the Ethnographic Analysis of Social Processes
  12. Chapter 3 The Extended Case
  13. Chapter 4 Situations, Crisis, and the Anthropology of the Concrete
  14. Section II: Historicizing Extended Cases
  15. Preface
  16. Chapter 5 Made in Manchester?
  17. Chapter 6 History of the Manchester 'School' and the Extended-Case Method
  18. Chapter 7 A Bridge over Troubled Waters, or What a Difference a Day Makes
  19. Section III: Case Studies
  20. Preface
  21. Chapter 8 The Workings of Uncertainty
  22. Chapter 9 The Vindication of Chaka Zulu
  23. Chapter 10 The Politics of Ethnicity as an Extended Case
  24. Chapter 11 From Tribes and Traditions to Composites and Conjunctures
  25. Coda: Recollections and Refutations
  26. Index