Max Gluckman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1911. He attended Witwatersrand University and Oxford. He graduated with a BA in law from Witwatersrand in 1930 and from Oxford in 1936. While at school, he did extensive research among the tribes of Central and South Africa (1936-1947). From 1947 to 1971 he was professor of social anthropology at the University of Manchester, where he was also a research professor. His main area of study was the political system of the tribes he was researching. He continued as professor of social anthropology at Manchester until his death in 1975. Gluckman was a political activist, even though it was against the normal trends of the time. He was openly anti-colonial and engaged directly with social conflicts and cultural contradictions of colonialism, with racism, urbanization and labor migration.
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Written by: Joseph Adam