W ilson, M onica (1908–82)

Monica Wilson (née Hunter), South Africa's leading twentieth‐century social anthropologist, was driven to reinterpret South African history by her childhood experiences, in a multiracial Presbyterian missionary school, of colonially biased South African history. Initially in collaboration with Godfrey Wilson, until his untimely death, she developed and applied her ethnographic skills and anthropological insights in order to realize that goal. The entry shows how, in doing so, she created the foundation for a then new historiographical perspective that critically assessed the consequences of European colonial conquest of the subcontinent and reactions to that process. It also documents her persistence in ensuring that the material from her ten‐year collaboration with Godfrey Wilson reached publication; and it indicates her deep commitment to collaborative work with black African scholars whose intellectual capacities were systematically undermined by colonial and apartheid structures

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Ethnography · Historiography · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · South African History and Culture

• Reaction to conquest

  Monica Hunter Wilson•Reaction to conquest•1979

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• The Oxford history of South Africa

  Leonard Monteath Thompson, Monica Hunter Wilson•The Oxford history of South Africa•1969

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• Inside African Anthropology

  Open Access•Rebecca Marsland, Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi et al.•Inside African Anthropology•2013

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• Langa

  Peter C W Gutkind, M Wilson et al.•Man•1966

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• Religion and the Transformation of Society

  Open Access•J D Y Peel•Sociology•1972

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