The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (RLI) was the first local anthropological research facility in Africa; it was founded in 1937 under the initial directorship of Godfrey Wilson . It is located a few miles outside Lusaka . Designed to allow for easier study of the local cultures of Northern Rhodesia , now Zambia , it became the base of operations for a number of leading anthropologists of the time.
4-455: The RLI anthropologists have been lauded by some as liberal, anti-racists, furthering the cause of African independence. Among the participating anthropologists at the RLI, In addition to Wilson, were Monica Hunter Wilson , Max Gluckman , J. Desmond Clark , Elizabeth Colson , E.L. Epstein, J. Clyde Mitchell , and William Watson. Others have called attention to what they regard as misguidedness on
8-834: The Pondo in the Eastern Cape between 1931 and 1933, was presented in the monograph Reaction to Conquest . Marrying Godfrey Wilson in 1935, the pair undertook fieldwork with the Nyakyusa in Tanzania between 1935 and 1938. Their fieldwork was sponsored by the International African Institute , Godfrey Wilson died in 1944. Monica taught at the University College of Fort Hare from 1944 to 1946 and at Rhodes University from 1947 to 1951. She
12-452: The part of the RLI anthropologists, stemming from the fact that they were embedded in the colonial system and blind to its reality as a component in dialectic study. Contrasting views are presented in a study by Lyn Schumaker (2001) and a chapter by Richard Brown (1973). The Institute published a series of papers: Also a series of Occasional Papers Monica Wilson Monica Wilson , nÊe Hunter (3 January 1908 â 26 October 1982)
16-572: Was a South African anthropologist, who was professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town . Monica Hunter was born to missionary parents in Lovedale in the Cape Colony , speaking Xhosa from childhood. She studied history at Girton College, Cambridge , before gaining a Cambridge doctorate in anthropology in 1934. Her thesis, the fieldwork for which was undertaken with
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