Inside African Anthropology : Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters
ISBN: 9781107029385 | 1107029384
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/31/2013
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Offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson, between the 1920s and 1960s.
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s through a massive personal archive, the book offers insights into the personal and intellectual life of a leading ... MORE
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s through a massive personal archive, the book offers insights into the personal and intellectual life of a leading ... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Pondoland and the Eastern Cape: | |
| Family, friends, and mentors: Monica Hunter at Lovedale and Cambridge, 1908-30 | |
| The 'intimate politics' of fieldwork: Monica Hunter and her African assistants, Pondoland and the Eastern Cape, 1931-2 | |
| City dreams, country magic: re-reading Monica Wilson's East London fieldnotes | |
| Bunyakyusa: | |
| Pondo pins and Nyakyusa hammers: Monica and Go... MORE | |
| Working with the Wilsons: the brief career of a 'Nyakyusa clerk', Leonard Mwaisumo (1910-38) | |
| Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town: | |
| 'Your intellectual son': Monica Wilson and her students at Fort Hare, 1944-6 | |
| Witchcraft and the academy: Livingstone Mqotsi, Monica Wilson, and the Middledrift healers, 1945-57 | |
| 'Speaking from inside': Archie Mafeje, Monica Wilson, and the co-production of Langa: A study of social groups in an African township Andrew Bank with | |
| Legacy: | |
| 'Part of one whole': anthropology and history in the work of Monica | |
| Gleanings and leavings: encounters in hindsight | |
| Bibliography | |
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