Inside African Anthropology

Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Inside African Anthropology by , Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9781107326958
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: April 8, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781107326958
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 8, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Why Not Jail? by
Cover of the book War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone by
Cover of the book Gender and Elections by
Cover of the book An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hindu Theology by
Cover of the book EU Treaties and Legislation by
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Keats by
Cover of the book Science and Religion by
Cover of the book Essential CNS Drug Development by
Cover of the book Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media by
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music by
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt by
Cover of the book EU External Relations Law by
Cover of the book Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals by
Cover of the book Force and Contention in Contemporary China by
Cover of the book Organ Donation and the Divine Lien in Talmudic Law by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy