ISBN:
9781107029385
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (368 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The International African Library
Parallel Title:
Print version Inside African Anthropology : Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
DDC:
306.092
Keywords:
Ethnologists ; South Africa ; Biography
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Wilson, Monica ; 1908-1982
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Women ethnologists ; South Africa ; Biography
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson, between the 1920s and 1960s
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
-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
Description / Table of Contents:
-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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
The Later Years, 1957-2009
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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