South Africa's Dreams

Robert J. Gordon is Emeritus Professor at the University of Vermont and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. His books include Going Abroad: Travelling like an Anthropologist (Routledge, 2010) and most recently The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of ‘Luckyman’ in Africa (Nebraska, 2018) which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2019.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

List of Abbreviations



Introduction



Chapter 1. Beleaguered Knowledge: The Interwar Irrelevance of Anthropological Expertise

Chapter 2. Post-World War II Ethnological Dispositions in a Disputed Territory

Chapter 3. Performing for All the World to See: Bruwer and the Fashioning of Modern Namibia

Chapter 4. From WHAM to Countermobilization

Chapter 5. Bringing Bonn Back In



Conclusion: “Have We Met the Enemy and is (S)he Us?” (Pogo)



References

Index