The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa
- ISBN-10
- 0803290837
- ISBN-13
- 9780803290839
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 522
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Robert J. Gordon
Description
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
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