Inside African Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
Redaktion: Bank, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107326958
• Artikelnr.: 40006656

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Andrew Bank; Part I. Pondoland and the Eastern Cape: 1.
Family, friends, and mentors: Monica Hunter at Lovedale and Cambridge,
1908-30 Andrew Bank; 2. The 'intimate politics' of fieldwork: Monica Hunter
and her African assistants, Pondoland and the Eastern Cape, 1931-2 Andrew
Bank; 3. City dreams, country magic: re-reading Monica Wilson's East London
fieldnotes Leslie J. Bank; Part II. Bunyakyusa: 4. Pondo pins and Nyakyusa
hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa Rebecca Marsland; 5. Working with
the Wilsons: the brief career of a 'Nyakyusa clerk', Leonard Mwaisumo
(1910-38) Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Timothy Mwakasekele and Andrew Bank;
Part III. Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town: 6. 'Your intellectual
son': Monica Wilson and her students at Fort Hare, 1944-6 Seán Morrow; 7.
Witchcraft and the academy: Livingstone Mqotsi, Monica Wilson, and the
Middledrift healers, 1945-57 Leslie J. Bank; 8. '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
IV. Legacy: 9. 'Part of one whole': anthropology and history in the work of
Monica Wilson Seán Morrow and Christopher Saunders; 10. Gleanings and
leavings: encounters in hindsight Pamela Reynolds; Bibliography.