{"product_id":"the-manchester-school-practice-and-ethnographic-praxis-in-anthropology-9781845452827","title":"The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPioneered 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tEdited 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“The book accomplishes admirably its stated aim, namely ‘to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits’. Its editors and chapter contributors demonstrate that the extended-case method is more than a ‘method’, it is a sophisticated mode of research and analysis arising from the long-standing political, institutional and epistemological concerns of Gluckman and his students...This book is a timely addition to the ongoing rethinking of practice theory after Bourdieu… With its ethnographic grounding, attention to situated process, and stress on the latent potentialities of social interaction for the structuring of social life (cf. Giddens 1984), the renewal of this social anthropological tradition signaled by the present study has much to offer cultural anthropologists in the United States and elsewhere.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Ethnos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e... Everyone will welcome this renewal of the extended case \/ situational analysis approach. Recovering the original reasons for doing things that one otherwise takes for granted not only recovers an earlier richness and generosity of intellect but makes for a very spirited and reinvigorating contemporary exercise....this is an important enterprise in charting the development of anthropology, and indeed social science more broadly.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Marilyn Strathern\u003c\/b\u003e, DBE, FBA, University of Cambridge\u0026lt;\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMisunderstood and neglected for decades, the Manchester School's influence on contemporary social anthropology is considerable, even if often unacknowledged. This excellent book shows that Gluckman et al. were years ahead of their time in formulating methodological and theoretical questions of crucial importance to anthropology today. A timely book indeed!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Thomas Hylland Eriksen\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Oslo\/Free University of Amsterdam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e The Ethnographic Praxis of the Theory of Practice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eT. M. S. Evens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION I: THEORIZING EXTENDED CASES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePreface:\u003c\/b\u003e Theorizing the Extended-Case Study Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eT. M. S. Evens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnographic Data in British Social Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMax Gluckman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Case and Situation Analysis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJ. Clyde Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e An Ontology for the Ethnographic Analysis of Social Processes: Extending the Extended-Case Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAndreas Glaeser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Some Ontological Implications of Situational Analysis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eT. M. S. Evens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Extended Case: Interactional Foundations and Prospective Dimensions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Situations, Crisis, and the Anthropology of the Concrete: The Contribution of Max Gluckman\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBruce Kapferer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION II: HISTORICIZING EXTENDED CASES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePreface:\u003c\/b\u003e Historicizing the Extended-Case Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eT. M. S. Evens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Made in Manchester? Methods and Myths in Disciplinary History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Mills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e History of the Manchester ‘School’ and the Extended-Case Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarian Kempny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e A Bridge over Troubled Waters, or What a Difference a Day Makes: From the Drama of Production to the Production of Drama\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRonald Frankenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION III: CASE STUDIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePreface:\u003c\/b\u003e Extended-Case Studies—Place, Time, Reflection\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eT. M. S. Evens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Workings of Uncertainty: Interrogating Cases on Refugees in Sweden\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKarin Norman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e The Vindication of Chaka Zulu: Retreat into the Enchantment of the Past \u003ci\u003eC.\u003cbr\u003e \tBawa Yamba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e The Politics of Ethnicity as an Extended Case: Thoughts on a Chiefly Succession Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBjörn Lindgren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e From Tribes and Traditions to Composites and Conjunctures\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSally Falk Moore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBruce Kapferer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042970206551,"sku":"9781845452827","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845452827.jpg?v=1750956456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-manchester-school-practice-and-ethnographic-praxis-in-anthropology-9781845452827","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}