Publisher's Synopsis
David Hammond-Tooke here takes a critical look at anthropology and anthropologists in South Africa and examines the uneasy relationship that existed between anthropological scholarship and national politics in a fundamentally divided and rapidly changing society.;The book is an account of 70 years of professional anthropolical activity in South Africa. It is not a history of university departments of who's who of the academic community. Rather it is a critical examiniation of the protagonists, the theoretical ideas that guided their researches, and, especially, their relationship to those in power.
