ANTHROPOLOGIST

Max Gluckman

1911 - 1975

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Herman Max Gluckman (; 26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African and British social anthropologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Gluckman has received more than 108,394 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Max Gluckman is the 65th most popular anthropologist (down from 64th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 85th in 2019) and the most popular South African Anthropologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Max Gluckman ranks 65 out of 93. Before him are Melville J. Herskovits, Georges Balandier, Jack Goody, Arjun Appadurai, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, and Philippe Descola. After him are George Murdock, Gayle Rubin, Madison Grant, Michael Harner, Robert Lowie, and James C. Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Max Gluckman ranks 246. Before him are Ján Cikker, Fauja Singh, Mirza Ibrahimov, Kurt Maetzig, Leif Erickson, and Stan Kenton. After him are José Augusto Brandão, Franz Wagner, Leonard Warren, Rudolf Raftl, Constantin Stanciu, and Marie Braun. Among people deceased in 1975, Max Gluckman ranks 179. Before him are Heinz Müller, Nicolas Rossolimo, Antonín Vodička, Fritz Wotruba, Ernst Alexanderson, and Bas Jan Ader. After him are Piero Dusio, Syed Nazrul Islam, Rod Serling, Valeri Popenchenko, Benjamin Jekhowsky, and Nilo Murtinho Braga.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Max Gluckman ranks 103 out of 454. Before him are Jan de Klerk (1903), Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), Sid Atkinson (1901), Jim Fouché (1898), Navi Pillay (1941), and Trevor Rabin (1954). After him are David Bailie (1937), Ted Grant (1913), Steve Nash (1974), Hugh Masekela (1939), Julius Malema (1981), and Alan Paton (1903).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among anthropologists born in South Africa, Max Gluckman ranks 1. 

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