Imperfect Interpreters - South Africa's Anthropologists, 1920-1990 by W. David Hammond-Tooke
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ISBN: 9781868143122
Publisher: Wits University Press, October 1997
Paperback, 252 pages
In this fascinating and accessible book, W.D. Hammond-Tooke takes a critical look at anthropology and anthropologists and examines the uneasy relationship between anthropological scholarship and national politics in a fundamentally divided and rapidly changing society. "Imperfect Interpreters" is an account of seventy years of professional anthropological study in South Africa. It is not a history of university departments or a who's who of the academic community. Rather it is a critical (and often very personal) examination of the protagonists, the theoretical ideas that guided their researches, and, especially their relationships to those in power.