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Picturing a Colonial Past

The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

By: Isaac Schapera,John L. Comaroff

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The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

By: Isaac Schapera,John L. Comaroff

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0226114120

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Picturing a Colonial Past

The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

By: Isaac Schapera,John L. Comaroff

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Tribal Innovators

Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795-1940

By: Isaac Schapera

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Tribal Innovators

Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795-1940

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This book is a completely revised version of a study published in 1943. That study, entitled Tribal Legislation among the Tswana of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, dealt with the role of chiefs as agents of social change and, in particular, with the changes they brought about by making new laws. It described the various kinds of legislative process current among the Tswana, and reviewed systematically the content and scope of the many laws made, from the earliest known instances up to the time of writing (1942), in eight different chiefdoms or 'tribes'; it also stated, where possible, why those laws were enacted, and discussed how far they really succeeded in establishing new ways of life.

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Routledge

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1000324060

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A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

By: Isaac Schapera

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A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

By: Isaac Schapera

A reprint of the first edition published in 1938. A specifically legal anthropology, its focus is on the careful, systematic presentation of the normative understandings of the Tswana world--its "rules"--without examination of the actual practices of everyday life or of enforcement. Appendices offer detailed data on lineages and age regiments. Distributed by Westview. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3894736852

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The Tswana

By: Isaac Schapera,John L Comaroff

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The Tswana

By: Isaac Schapera,John L Comaroff

First published in 1953 and this edition in 1991, this book was created in association with the International African Institute. Since its first publication, anthropology and African Studies have changed a great deal, but the bedrock of both remains unchanged: solid, sensitive ethnographic and historical accounts of the peoples and cultures of the continent. Part One is by Isaac Schapera whose documentation of life and times in the Bechuanaland Protectorate stands as a starkly detailed chronical of an African population in a rapidly changing world. Schapera was one of the few anthropologists who spoke frankly of the rural predicament of rural Africans under colonialism. Far from describing the Tswana as a closed or timeless ‘society’, he locates the people in their political and economic context, and in so doing, has left behind an extraordinary record. This edition of The Tswana consists of the original text to which has been added a second part by John L. Comaroff, which covers the transformation of Tswana life in Botswana and South Africa 1953-85, plus a much enlarged bibliography. Together, the parts of the book make a valuable summary of an exceedingly rich and ethnographic and historical record that will continue to serve as an indispensable tool in research and teaching.

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176

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1317408136

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The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes

By: Isaac Schapera

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1000323447

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A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

By: Isaac Schapera

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A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

Compiled for the Bechuanaland Protectorate Administration

By: Isaac Schapera

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A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

Compiled for the Bechuanaland Protectorate Administration

By: Isaac Schapera

When Professor Isaac Schapera was asked in 1934 by the Protectorate Administration to compile a record of the traditional and modern laws of the Tswana tribes he had already been working since 1929 on a comprehensive ethnographic study of the Kgatla, and his investigation was therefore based on a thorough previous knowledge of the social structure as a whole. Schapera gives a picture of what Tswana law was like in former times, and shows that, contrary to expectation, modern European contact and the administration of tribes by the then Protectorate Government ended the original uniformity of the system, and created considerable diversity. Schapera conscientiously kept within the original mandate of the Administration and produced an authoritative, straightforward compilation. Despite its modest title it has deservedly become a classic and far exceeds its primary object, which was to serve as a handbook for the information and guidance of government officials and administrators of the law. This is a reprint of the first edition published in 1938.

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3894738804

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The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes

By: Isaac Schapera

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The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes

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A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes

The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes

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