Picturing a colonial past : the African photographs of Isaac Schapera

Picturing a colonial past : the African photographs of Isaac Schapera / John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, & Deborah James, editor.

Author/creator	Schapera, Isaac, 1905-2003
Other author/creator	Comaroff, John L., 1945-
Other author/creator	Comaroff, Jean.
Other author/creator	James, Deborah, Dr.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description	xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	Ethnology--Africa --Pictorial works. Africa--Social life and customs --Pictorial works. Africa--History --Pictorial works.

Portion of title	African photographs of Isaac Schapera
Contents	Editorial note -- Isaac Schapera, two portraits of the ethnographer -- Letter from Chief Linchwe II of the Kgatla -- Introduction: The portraits of an ethnographer as a young man / Jean and John Comaroff -- Isaac Schapera (1905-2003) : his life and times / Adam Kuper -- The Bakgatla Bagakgafêla : preliminary report of field investigations, 1933 / Isaac Schapera -- African images : the photographs of Isaac Schapera in Bechuanaland and elsewhere, 1929-1940 -- Motse : the architecture of village life -- Mo gae : domestic scenes -- Ditshwantshó : portraits -- Bana : children, at play and work -- Bogwêra : initiation rites -- Tiro : the work of production -- Moroka : the rainmaker -- Kgotla : the public sphere -- Banna ba ditshaba : others.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2006019439
ISBN	9780226114118 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0226114112 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780226114125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0226114120 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	DT15 .S34 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold