[1] His wife Pnina Werbner, also a professor of anthropology, was the niece of Max Gluckman, a South African anthropologist who did important work in Barotseland and was a leading figure at the Manchester school.
[1] Werbner won the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute for his 1991 book Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family.
"[3] Werbner directed a series of documentary films under the overall title The Well Being Quest in Botswana, which were published by the University of Manchester.
Seance Reflections documents a childless couple who try to recover their well-being by consulting a charismatic diviner and healer in the village of Moremi.
[4] Encountering Eloyi continues the story of the childless couple, who have now tried both traditional medicine and Western hospitals without success.