Isaac Schapera

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.

Education

• South African College School, Cape Town
• University of Cape Town (MA 1925)
• University of London (PhD 1929, DSc 1939)

Career

• Professor. of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, 1935-50
• Professor of Anthropology, LSE, 1950-69 (Hon. Fellow, 1974) then Emeritus Professor
• Visiting Professor: University of Chicago, 1948; University of Toronto, 1953.

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

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

Archives

• Catalogue of the papers of Isaac Schapera held at LSE Archives
• Catalogue of books from the library of Isaac Schapera, mainly on the subject of David Livingstone