Thursday, May 19, 2016

An expert in my field

The expert in anthropology that i would like to write about is Max Gluckman, a South-African anthropologist. One of his contributions were introduced the importance of conflict in social situations and social structures, he was one of the first working this topic so he became a exponent in this area. The other contribution, in my opinion, is that in his works, he made explicit his history, his culture, his color, because he worked with the conflict between black and white people in Africa, so he was always aware of this aspects and he also write this so when we read, we understand why he think that way. Today, i think that the most important is the second contribution, but i don't think that he is consider for that. I found out about him in a subject named Anthropology IV, where we had to read one of his text about "zululand" as he wrote. In this text, he explain how this conflict where, in first, because of the colors and the different logic they had, but later was about interest. Particularly in ZulĂș, people relations where moved and based in their interest, but this relations where very fragile because there were a lot of changes.



 

5 comments:

  1. Oh, very interesting Renata!I didn't read this text :( But I think I will c:

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  2. That interesting author, I did not know him . I will find out about him. Bye bye renata

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  3. That interesting author, I did not know him . I will find out about him. Bye bye renata

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  4. wow is a very interesting author, I think is necessary find about more for him. Bye

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  5. Yes! Max Gluckman is a great autor of social anthropology. I am interested in his book: "Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa".

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