Max Gluckman Custom and Conflict in Africa Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
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Max Gluckman Custom and Conflict in Africa Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
“The Barotse [Lozi], a Northern Rhodesian people on the upper Zambezi, ... say that man’s cleverness drove God in fright from the earth.”
Max Gluckman, “The Magic of Despair” (1954)
Photograph: “The Kuomboka Ceremony”, http://www.barotseland.info/KUOMBOKA_CEREMONY.htm
Swazi polity was a system in which there were rebels, not revolutionaries. ... The rebellion is in fact waged to defend the kingship against the king. The people have an interest in the values of kingship and fight for them.
Max Gluckman, “Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa” (1953)
Um dos trabalhos mais elogiados por Cooper, nos seus textos sobre a pesquisa académica em África, foi o do sociólogo francês Georges Balandier, que em 1951 apresentou e desenvolveu o conceito de «situação colonial». Para o historiador americano a proposta de Balandier possuía a virtude de criar uma problematização teórica a partir de um terreno de pesquisa empiricamente sustentado. Algo de igualmente estimulante se observou, a um nível de pesquisa masi micro, no trabalho dos antropólogos de Manchester, ligados ao Rhodes Livingston Institute, e marcados pelo magistério de Max Gluckman (...).
Em introdução a Histórias de África p.14