ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Max Gluckman, Ethnography, Emic And Etic
17 Mar 2016
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The ethnography of judicial pracice: gluckman versus bohannan. Key terms: commensurability/incommensurability, manchester school, situaional analysis. Gluckman focused on commensurability and how african legal pracices could be translated and made sense of using western terms. Bohannan believed the opposite, situaing ideas in the language and culture which produced them and refusing to try and make them it into a diferent language. The manchester school was the ideological school gluckman established in manchester. Had a focus on conlict and promoted the methodological approach of case studies. Situaional analysis is a sort of ethnography of speciic scenarios. Because court cases couldn"t be approached in the regularized malinowski style long term ethnography, this method emerged as a way to do deep ethnographic analyses of a shorter event. Gluckman wanted to know why certain people have certain legal ideas. Didn"t emphasize the same sort of superiority and judgement that was evident in. Didn"t think socieies were beter or worse, just diferently organized.
