Manchester school (anthropology)
The Manchester School of Anthropology is an interactionist direction of British anthropology, which emanated from the University of Manchester.
The name Manchester Anthropology implied once both the loyalty to a group and to a certain line, and in the beginning even to Max Gluckman's favorite team, Manchester United.
Mention may be made among
- Max Gluckman
- J. Clyde Mitchell
- Victor Turner
- Bruce Kapferer
From the Rhodes - Livingstone Institute of Social Research in Lusaka (Zambia ) from the main representatives conducted their work, all in southern Africa, especially in today's Zambia. They employed, for example, in the local " Copperbelt " especially with the dramatic social change, which was clear early on in this area of the mining and smelting of copper and cobalt.
They also practiced vigorous critique of British colonialism, and laid a foundation for the ethnicity.
She worked particularly the conflict sociological ambivalence of harmonisierendem ritualism and conflicting interaction. Conflict -orientation and process- were therefore particular emphasis of their studies in southern Africa in the midst of the British colonial era. They were of the view that the old, Bronisław Malinowski was no longer keep up with embossed principle of British functionalism that only the present count and processes and historical changes are putting aside as secondary.
The " Manchester School " was the first time in the history of British social anthropology to above, also on local factors ( namely those of colonialism ) were analyzed with and began global systems in their interaction with the local structures to investigate.