Books by Max Gluckman

These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics.

Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom

What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition

Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom

Provides a systematic introduction to the political systems of tribal societies. This book discusses the relation between disputes and struggles for power within the context of mechanisms of social control and stability. It presents a step-by-step survey of the cumulative development of anthropological analysis of tribal institutions.