| LC control no. | n 79039632 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gluckman, Max, 1911-1975 |
| Variant(s) | Gluckmann, Herman Max, 1911-1975 |
| Associated country | England |
| Birth date | 1911-01-26 |
| Death date | 1975-04-13 |
| Place of birth | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |
| Affiliation | University of Oxford Rhodes-Livingstone Institute University of Manchester |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists College teachers Authors |
| Found in | His Economy of the central Barotse plain, 1941. Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Gluckman, Max; Herman Max Gluckman; anthropologist; born 26 January 1911 in Johannesburg, South Africa; hold BA degree in anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand (1930) and Phd in anthropology at Oxford University in the UK (1936); published series of influential articles, first in Bantu Studies, under the title of Analysis of a Social situation in modern Zululand (1940); set basis for new school of social anthropology (1940's); was a director at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (1941-1947); lectured at Oxford (1947); became the first professor of social anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK (1949); worked on case-study approach, which became known as the Manchester School; published articles on the political, economic and legal cultures of southern and central Africa (1940's-1960's); died 13 April 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel) |
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