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Format: 1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781139333634 (ebook)

Series Statement: The International African library ; 44

Content: 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.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Introduction / Andrew Bank -- Family, friends and mentors: Monica Hunter at Lovedale and Cambridge, 1908-1930 / Andrew Bank -- The 'intimate politics' of fieldwork: Monica Hunter and her African assistants, Pondoland and the Eastern Cape, 1931-1932 / Andrew Banks -- City dreams, country magic: re-reading Monica Hunter's East London fieldnotes / Leslie F. Bank -- Pondo pins and Nyakyusa hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa / Rebecca Marsland -- Working with the Wilsons: the brief career of a 'Nyakyusa clerk' (1910-1938) / Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Timothy Mwakasekele and Andrew Bank -- 'Your intellectual son': Monica Wilson and her students at Fort Hare, 1944-1946 / Seán Morrow -- Witchcraft and the academy: Livingstone Mqotsi, Monica Wilson and the Middledrift Healers, 1945-1957 / Leslie F. Bank -- '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 Vuyiswa Swana -- 'Part of one whole': anthropology and history in the work of Monica Wilson / Seán Morrow and Christopher Saunders -- Gleanings and leavings: encounters in hindsight / Pamela Reynolds.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781107029385

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139333634

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Format: Online-Ressource (368 p)

Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781107029385

Series Statement: The International African Library

Content: Offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson, between the 1920s and 1960s

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Interpreters; The -Official' History of Anthropology in South Africa; An -Unofficial' History of Anthropology in South and Central Africa; The Contribution of Hunter Wilson and Her Interpreters; The Rich Life of the Wilson Collection; Part 1 Pondoland and the Eastern Cape; 1 Family, Friends and Mentors: Monica Hunter at Lovedale and Cambridge, 1908-1930; A Lovedale Education, 1908-1921; Edinburgh, Port Elizabeth and Alice, 1921-1926; A Hunter of the Girton Tribe, October 1927-June 1928 , -I Have Let Myself in for a Labour Study Circle': Hunter, Sadek and Roux, October 1927-November 1928Social Anthropology at Cambridge: Hunter, Driberg and Hodson, March 1929-June 1930; Conclusion; 2 The -Intimate Politics' of Fieldwork: Monica Hunter and Her African Assistants, Pondoland and the Eastern Cape, 1931-1932; -A Fingo Girl of My Own Age': Auckland Village, Cape Province, February-April 1931; -Mrs D. Was a Frightful Brick': Ntibane, Western Pondoland, May-November 1931; A -Man Who Talks of European Politics & Sitting Next to Lloyd George': East Bank, East London, February-April 1932 , -Michael Geza My Clerk': Four Stores and a Mission Station, Eastern Pondoland, July-November 1932Acknowledgement; 3 City Dreams, Country Magic: Re-Reading Monica Hunters East London Fieldnotes; -A Daughter of Lovedale' in East Bank, February-April 1932; Typing Up Fieldnotes and Constructing a Master Narrative; Inscribing Social Categories from Fieldnotes; Hidden Transcripts: Dreaming in East London; Conclusion; Part 2 Bunyakyusa; 4 Pondo Pins and Nyakyusa Hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa; The Nyakyusa Trilogy; The Anthropological Marriage , Mwaipaja and Kagile: A Participant and an Observer-A Sacred Trust and a Labour of Love'; Godfreys Notes; Monicas Typed Transcription; Conclusion; 5 Working with the Wilsons: The Brief Career of a -Nyakyusa Clerk' (1910-1938); Leonard Mwaisumos Early Years, 1910-1933; Working with Godfrey, September 1934-January 1935; Working with Monica, March-November 1935; The -Native Clerk' as Author: Leonard Mwaisumos Kinyakyusa Texts; Eighteen Months as Government Clerk, November 1936-April 1938; Conclusion: Leonard Mwaisumo as Insider Ethnographer; Part 3 Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town , 6 -Your Intellectual Son': Monica Wilson and Her Students at Fort Hare, 1944-1946Death, Family and Locality; Committing to South Africa; Teaching and Students; Teaching, Researching, Writing; Monica and Fort Hare after Her Departure; 7 Witchcraft and the Academy: Livingstone Mqotsi, Monica Wilson and the Middledrift Healers, 1945-1957; Living in a Sisters House, 1930-1945; Monica and the Limba Church Study, 1945-1946; Preparing for Fieldwork in Middledrift; Healdtown and Bantu Education, 1950-1954; The Witches of Academia, 1954-1957; Back to the Middledrift Healers, 1956-1957 , The Later Years, 1957-2009 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107335059

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107029385

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Inside African Anthropology : Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

URL: Volltext

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Format: XV, 354 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-1-10-702938-5

Series Statement: International African library [44]

Note: Includes bibliographical references (S. 321 - 346) and index

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Ethnologin ; 1908-1982 Wilson, Monica ; Aufsatzsammlung

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