The Department of Social Anthropology at the

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, founded by

Max Gluckman Herman Max Gluckman (; 26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African and British social anthropologist. He is best known as the founder of the Manchester School of anthropology. Biography and major works Gluckman was born in Johan ...

in 1947 became known among anthropologists and other social scientists as the Manchester School. Notable features of the Manchester School included an emphasis on "case studies", deriving from Gluckman's early training in law and similar to methods used in law schools. The case method involved detailed analysis of particular instances of social interaction to infer rules and assumptions. The Manchester School also read the works of Marx and other economists and sociologists and looked at issues of social justice such as apartheid and class conflict. Recurring themes included issues of conflict and reconciliation in small-scale societies and organizations, and the tension between individual agency and social structure. Manchester school members and interlocutors also played major roles in the development of the field of

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in anthropology and the social sciences.

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, Elizabeth Bott, and J. Clyde Mitchell were all associated with Gluckman's department.John Scott (2004) ''Networks, Social''. Pp. 687-688. Social Science Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kupe. Abingdon: Routledge. Several anthropologists who were not directly associated with the Manchester University anthropology department are sometimes considered members of the Manchester School, particularly those who were associated with Gluckman or his students through the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. Some others, such as

Edmund Leach Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also president of the Royal Anthropologi ...

, at one period or another were significant interlocutors of the Manchester School. An alternative adjectival form for the Manchester School is "Mancunian" (like Cantabrigian for

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Notable Manchester School anthropologists

* Kathleen Gale (Lange-Stone) - student of Gluckman * F. G. Bailey - student of Gluckman *

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- worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute with Gluckman, student of Gluckman *

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- student of Leach (see * Elizabeth Bott * Abner Cohen - student of Gluckman
Elizabeth Colson
- through Rhodes-Livingstone Institut
talk of Elizabeth Colson and interview by Alan Macfarlane: and after-dinner talk on the history of anthropology
* Ian Cunnison * A. L. Epstein — worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute * T. Scarlett Epstein *

Ronald Frankenberg Ronald Frankenberg (20 October 1929 – 20 November 2015) was a British anthropologist and sociologist, known for his study of conflict and decision-making in a Welsh village. He also contributed to the development of medical anthropology. Fra ...

- student of Gluckman * J. F. Holleman — worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute with Gluckman (see * Bruce Kapferer - student of Gluckman * Colin Lacey - student of Gluckman * Norman Long - PhD student, later lecturer until 1972 * M. G. Marwick — worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute with Colson. * J. Clyde Mitchell - early researcher at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute * David H.J. Morgan - student of Gluckman * Thayer Scudder - worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute *

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- worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, student of Gluckman (see * Jaap van Velsen — worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute with Gluckman (see * M. Warwick — worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute with Gluckman (see * Richard Werbner — student of Gluckman * William 'Bill' M Watson — worked at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute with Gluckman (see

Social scientists sometimes associated with the Manchester School

- though not educated at Manchester, he was a major interlocutor of the Manchester School, especially in his early years. In later years, he engaged more directly with issues arising out of the French Structuralism of

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. *

Maurice Godelier Maurice Godelier (born February 28, 1934) is a French anthropologist who works as a Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He is one of the most influential French anthropologists and is best known as one o ...

- not educated at Manchester, his work, along with that of Marshall Sahlins, Claude Meillassoux, and Emmanuel Terray, was widely read in Leach's Cambridge seminars (and at Manchester), as reported b
Tim Ingold
* Douglas White - not educated at Manchester, he collaborated with J. Clyde Mitchell
Elizabeth Colson
Thayer Scudder, and developed an anthropological approach to

that built on Manchester School work of Elizabeth Bott,

, J. Clyde Mitchell,

and Bonno Thoden van Velzen; his PhD advisor, legal anthropologist E. Adamson Hoebel, was a close friend with Gluckman, who often visited Hoebel in Minneapolis.Background, Douglas R. White, 2007.
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* [https://archive.today/20130415170622/http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/102/406/163?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=(Manchester+AND+school+AND+student+AND+Gluckman+AND+Marwick)&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge in Central Africa, by Lyn Schumaker. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press. 2001. Book review by Adam Kuper. Kuper African Affairs (London 102: 163-164). 2003.]
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