Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters

ISBN-13: 9781108453172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 372 str.

Andrew Bank; Leslie J. Bank

Opis

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

Recenzje

'… the volume is not only about intellectual history. It is also a social history of the micro-politics of fieldwork. In this regard it is an advance on the pioneering work of Lyn Schumaker (2001), among others, offering superb studies on the production of knowledge at the rock face. It effectively destroys the image of a few lonely isolated minds rising like mountain peaks above their compatriots. It demonstrates that the clouds can hide other peaks and routes as well.' Anthropology Southern Africa

Spis treści

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.