Robert J Gordon

The Enigma of Max Gluckman

The Ethnographic Life of a Luckyman in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert J. Gordon is a professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and the University of the Free State. He is the author or¿editor of over a dozen books in cultural anthropology and African ethnography, including Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture; Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist: Essays on the Anthropology of Adventure ; and The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass, second edition. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9780803290839
• ISBN-10: 0803290837
• Artikelnr.: 51121530

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Gordon is a professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and the University of the Free State. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books in cultural anthropology and African ethnography, including Re-Creating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture; Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist: Essays on the Anthropology of Adventure ; and The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass, second edition.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction: The Enigma of Max Gluckman
1. Making the Very Model of a Modern Liberal
2. London Calling
3. How the Guinea Pig Burnt His Own Bridge
4. Return to Oxford and Intellectual Ferment
5. Landing and Living in Livingi
6. Mary, Max, and the Mongu Masquerade
7. Getting to Grips with the Lozi
8. Running the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
9. The Seven-Year Plan
10. The African Undertow
Notes
References
Index