Pioneers of the Field

South Africa's Women Anthropologists

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19903216
AutoresAndrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Data de publicação2016-08-11
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPioneers of the Field (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316584187
OpenAlexW3155815368
Open LibraryOL34722995M
ISBN9781316584187
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20

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

Field (mathematics) · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture · biography · Education · Ethnologin · Ethnologists · Ethnology · South Africa · Study and teaching (Higher) · Women ethnologists