Pioneers of the Field: South Africa's Women Anthropologists

ISBN-13: 9781107150492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str.

Andrew Bank

Opis

This book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women anthropologists, using a rich cocktail of new archival sources.

Recenzje

'Andrew Bank has provided us with a panoply of new stories and a range of far-reaching analyses that will, for many years to come, inform our teaching, research, writing and, perhaps, even our sense of what on earth anthropology was and is all about.' Joanna Davidson, Journal of Southern African Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: rethinking the canon; 1. Feminizing the foundational narrative: the collaborative anthropology of Winifred Tucker Hoernle (1885–1960); 2. An adopted daughter: Christianity and anthropology in the life and work of Monica Hunter Wilson (1908–82); 3. Anthropology and Jewish identity: the urban fieldwork and ethnographies of Ellen Hellmann (1908–82); 4. 'A genius for friendship': Audrey Richards at Wits, 1938–40; 5. Historical ethnography and ethnographic fiction: the South African writings of Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911–92); 6. Feminising the discipline: the long career of Eileen Jensen Krige (1904–95); Conclusion: a humanist legacy.