Isaac Schapera

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Isaac Schapera, FBA, FRSSAf (23 June 1905, Garies, South Africa - 26 June 2003, London) was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen.

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[edit] Education

[edit] Career

[edit] Positions and honours

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, 1934
  • FBA, 1958
  • Chairman, Association of Social Anthropologists of the British Commonwealth, 1954-57
  • President, RAI, 1961-63

[edit] Publications

  • The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, 1930
  • A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom, 1938
  • Married Life in an African Tribe, 1940
  • Native Land Tenure in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1943
  • Migrant Labour and Tribal Life, 1948
  • The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes, 1952; The Tswana, 1953
  • Government and Politics in Tribal Societies, 1956
  • Praise Poems of Tswana Chiefs, 1965
  • Tribal Innovators, 1970
  • Rainmaking Rites of Tswana Tribes, 1971
  • Kinship Terminology in Jane Austen's Novels, 1977
  • Editor of:
    • Western Civilization and the Natives of South Africa, 1934
    • The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa, 1937
    • David Livingstone's Journals and Letters 1841-1856 (6 vols), 1959-63
    • David Livingstone: South African papers 1849-1853, 1974
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