Max Gluckman

Max Gluckman ( born January 26, 1911 in Johannesburg, South Africa, † 1975), from Russian- Jewish parents, was a South African ethno- sociologist who his principal action of the University of Manchester from unfolded (see also Manchester School of Anthropology ).

Trained in apartheid South Africa, which is increasingly difficult social scientific empiricism, he led first ( especially since quite ethnological ) field studies in Barotseland ( Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia ) by. His approach influenced the research at that time highly regarded Rhodes - Livingstone Institute in Lusaka strong, from where he was appointed professor at the University of Manchester.

From its Monographs was especially Custom and Conflict in Africa launched many and is a significant English contribution to conflict sociology and social anthropology of the rituals. Among his many pupils are AL Epstein, Bruce Kapferer, J. Clyde Mitchell and Victor Turner to call.