UID:
almahu_9947414272602882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) :
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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).
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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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