The Manchester School : : Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology / / ed. by Don Handelman, T. M. S. (Terry) Evens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Evens, T. M. S. (Terry),; Handelman, Don,
• MitwirkendeR: Evens, T. M. S.,; Frankenberg, Ronald,; Glaeser, Andreas,; Gluckman, Max,; Handelman, Don,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Kempny, Marian,; Lindgren, Björn,; Mills, David,; Mitchell, J. Clyde,; Moore, Sally Falk,; Norman, Karin,; Yamba, C. Bawa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to address, namely, problems such as change, conflict, deviance, and individual choice. Edited by two students of Gluckman, the volume comprises reprinted pieces by Gluckman and his colleague Clyde Mitchell, a Coda by Mitchell’s student, Bruce Kapferer, contributions by Gluckman’s students and/or friends and colleagues, including Ronnie Frankenberg, Kapferer, Evens, Handelman, and Sally Falk Moore, as well as a number of contributions from other practitioners of the extended case. Apart from the reprinted pieces by Gluckman and Mitchell, all the contributions have been written for this volume. These essays, historical, theoretical, and ethnographical, serve to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION The Ethnographic Praxis of the Theory of Practice -- ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA IN BRITISH SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- CASE AND SITUATION ANALYSIS -- SECTION I THEORIZING EXTENDED CASES -- PREFACE Theorizing the Extended-Case Study Method -- Chapter 1 SOME ONTOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS -- Chapter 2 AN ONTOLOGY FOR THE ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL PROCESSES Extending the Extended-Case Method -- Chapter 3 THE EXTENDED CASE Interactional Foundations and Prospective Dimensions -- Chapter 4 SITUATIONS, CRISIS, AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE CONCRETE The Contribution of Max Gluckman -- SECTION II HISTORICIZING EXTENDED CASES -- PREFACE Historicizing the Extended-Case Method -- Chapter 5 MADE IN MANCHESTER? Methods and Myths in Disciplinary History -- Chapter 6 HISTORY OF THE MANCHESTER ‘SCHOOL’ AND THE EXTENDED-CASE METHOD -- Chapter 7 A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS, OR WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES From the Drama of Production to the Production of Drama -- SECTION III CASE STUDIES -- PREFACE Extended-Case Studies—Place, Time, Reflection -- Chapter 8 THE WORKINGS OF UNCERTAINTY Interrogating Cases on Refugees in Sweden -- Chapter 9 THE VINDICATION OF CHAKA ZULU Retreat into the Enchantment of the Past -- Chapter 10 THE POLITICS OF ETHNICITY AS AN EXTENDED CASE Thoughts on a Chiefly Succession Crisis -- Chapter 11 FROM TRIBES AND TRADITIONS TO COMPOSITES AND CONJUNCTURES -- CODA Recollections and Refutations -- INDEX