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