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Max Gluckman  

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  • Max Gluckman (1911–1975) was a distinguished social anthropologist who did pioneering studies of African legal systems and maintained an abiding interest in the dynamics of local conflict and its resolution. Biography The second of four children, Herman Max Gluckman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1911 to Jewish immigrant parents. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Gluckman, Max]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VJWHNP1Z-4

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