This study offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into the personal and intellectual life of a leading African anthropologist.
This study offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into the personal and intellectual life of a leading African anthropologist.
Introduction Andrew Bank; Part I. Pondoland and the Eastern Cape: 1. Family, friends, and mentors: Monica Hunter at Lovedale and Cambridge, 1908-30 Andrew Bank; 2. The 'intimate politics' of fieldwork: Monica Hunter and her African assistants, Pondoland and the Eastern Cape, 1931-2 Andrew Bank; 3. City dreams, country magic: re-reading Monica Wilson's East London fieldnotes Leslie J. Bank; Part II. Bunyakyusa: 4. Pondo pins and Nyakyusa hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa Rebecca Marsland; 5. Working with the Wilsons: the brief career of a 'Nyakyusa clerk', Leonard Mwaisumo (1910-38) Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Timothy Mwakasekele and Andrew Bank; Part III. Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town: 6. 'Your intellectual son': Monica Wilson and her students at Fort Hare, 1944-6 Seán Morrow; 7. Witchcraft and the academy: Livingstone Mqotsi, Monica Wilson, and the Middledrift healers, 1945-57 Leslie J. Bank; 8. 'Speaking from inside': Archie Mafeje, Monica Wilson, and the co-production of Langa: A study of social groups in an African township Andrew Bank with Vuyiswa Swana; Part IV. Legacy: 9. 'Part of one whole': anthropology and history in the work of Monica Wilson Seán Morrow and Christopher Saunders; 10. Gleanings and leavings: encounters in hindsight Pamela Reynolds; Bibliography.
Introduction Andrew Bank; Part I. Pondoland and the Eastern Cape: 1. Family, friends, and mentors: Monica Hunter at Lovedale and Cambridge, 1908-30 Andrew Bank; 2. The 'intimate politics' of fieldwork: Monica Hunter and her African assistants, Pondoland and the Eastern Cape, 1931-2 Andrew Bank; 3. City dreams, country magic: re-reading Monica Wilson's East London fieldnotes Leslie J. Bank; Part II. Bunyakyusa: 4. Pondo pins and Nyakyusa hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa Rebecca Marsland; 5. Working with the Wilsons: the brief career of a 'Nyakyusa clerk', Leonard Mwaisumo (1910-38) Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Timothy Mwakasekele and Andrew Bank; Part III. Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town: 6. 'Your intellectual son': Monica Wilson and her students at Fort Hare, 1944-6 Seán Morrow; 7. Witchcraft and the academy: Livingstone Mqotsi, Monica Wilson, and the Middledrift healers, 1945-57 Leslie J. Bank; 8. 'Speaking from inside': Archie Mafeje, Monica Wilson, and the co-production of Langa: A study of social groups in an African township Andrew Bank with Vuyiswa Swana; Part IV. Legacy: 9. 'Part of one whole': anthropology and history in the work of Monica Wilson Seán Morrow and Christopher Saunders; 10. Gleanings and leavings: encounters in hindsight Pamela Reynolds; Bibliography.
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