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Pioneers of the Field

South Africa's Women Anthropologists

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Publisher Description

Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women through the use of a rich cocktail of new archival sources, including family photographs, private and professional correspondence, field-notes and field diaries, published and other public writings and even love letters. The book also sheds new light on the close connections between their personal lives, their academic work and their anti-segregationist and anti-apartheid politics. It will be welcomed by anthropologists, historians and students in African studies interested in the development of social anthropology in twentieth-century Africa, as well as by students and researchers in the field of gender studies.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2016
11 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
543
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
23.6
MB

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