biography
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Gluckman, (Herman) Max
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–75)
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| biography:
| Social anthropologist, born in Johannesburg, NE South Africa. He studied at Witwatersrand and Oxford, carried out extensive field work among tribes of C and S Africa (1936–44), was director of the Rhodes–Livingstone Institute, Northern Rhodesia (1941–7), and lectured at Oxford (1947–9). He was appointed to the chair of social anthropology at Manchester (1949), becoming research professor in 1971. His studies focused on the political systems of the tribes, analyzing the role of conflict in the maintenance of social cohesion. |
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