The Anthropologists' Frontier
The Last Phase of African Exploitation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4252551 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James R Hooker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-459 |
| Publication date | 1963-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00001373 |
| OpenAlex | W2086915099 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 1 |
The rapid demise of empires in Africa is paralled by the equally swift retreat of social anthropologists to the wings. While Diedrich Westermann in 1934 could deplore the administrators' rejection of proffered anthropological advice, by 1945, at least where Europeans had settled, one gathers that administrators were slavish devotees of the profession, almost painfully eager to stare with puzzlement at premier chief lists and kinship tables of organisation. A further development was suggested in the middle 1950's, with a report from the Rhodesias of a nationalist boast that Africans relied upon anthropologists for information from the enemy European camp. But, as new states ran up their flags and despatched envoys to the U.N., anthropologists began to speak of alienation. in the future there may be a rupture unless anthropologists become historians or sociologists
Adversary · Alienation · Demise · Ethnology · FLAGS register · Frontier · Kinship · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Swift · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2018 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |