Pioneers of the field - South Africa's women anthropologists- Andrew Bank, (AFRICANA OUT OF PRINT|||

Pioneers of the field - South Africa's womenanthropologists (Paperback) Andrew Bank,(AFRICANA OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers,Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in SouthAfrica was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the personal andintellectual histories of six remarkable women through the use of a richcocktail of new archival sources, including family photographs, private andprofessional correspondence, field-notes and fi eld diaries, published andother public writings and even love letters. The book also sheds new light onthe close connections between their personal lives, their academic work andtheir antisegregationist and anti-apartheid politics. It will be welcomed byanthropologists, historians and students in African studies interested in thedevelopment of social anthropology in twentieth