
Reaction to Conquest
Efforts of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa
Monica Hunter Wilson(Author)
LIT (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 10. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
720 pages
978-3-89473-875-4 (ISBN)
Description
This study by Monica Hunter Wilson, originally published in 1936, and reissued in a second edition in 1961, was one of the first to provide a detailed account of an African people in the process of change from rural cattle-raising tribesmen to urban and agricultural wage-earners in a European-dominated economic system. It also broke new ground in its attempt to apply anthropological methods to the study of an African community living in urban conditions. The book is divided into three main sections. The first, and most extensive, studies the effects of culture contact upon the Pondo living in the reserves, the second discusses urban life and the effects of urbanization, and the third describes the position of Africans living on European-owned farms. A final section discusses future 'Tendencies' as they appeared at that time.
This new edition, being published on the centenary of this pioneering anthropologist's birth, contains two major essays - one an appreciation of her life and work in the South African and wider African contexts, by her elder son, Professor Francis Wilson; and the other a reflection by Dr James G. Ellison on the circumstances in which Monica Hunter Wilson undertook the research and writing of this volume, and its significance for anthropology more generally at the time.
Links:
Website of the International African Institute
This new edition, being published on the centenary of this pioneering anthropologist's birth, contains two major essays - one an appreciation of her life and work in the South African and wider African contexts, by her elder son, Professor Francis Wilson; and the other a reflection by Dr James G. Ellison on the circumstances in which Monica Hunter Wilson undertook the research and writing of this volume, and its significance for anthropology more generally at the time.
Links:
Website of the International African Institute
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hamburg
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 photographs, maps
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.7 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-89473-875-4 (9783894738754)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
The author is also well-known for a number of detailed studies of the Nyakyusa of Central Africa.