Evens (anthropology, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Handelman (anthropology, The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) compile 14 essays on the extended-case method and situational analysis of the Manchester School of Anthropology, which was pioneered by Max Gluckman. The contributed essays, which originated in a workshop organized for the Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in 2002, are by the editors and other former students and colleagues of Gluckman. They discuss theorizing and historicizing the extended-case method, followed by case studies of locations in Sweden and Africa. A reprinted essay by Gluckman is included. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)