Against structural skepticism: Max Gluckman’s response to Elizabeth Colson

Abstract

A quite recent book casts the anthropologist Elizabeth Colson as a systems skeptic, with Max Gluckman attempting to counter her skepticism. In this paper, I offer clarifications of the skepticism and of the counter.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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