In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created. Understanding these practices and the ways in which South Africa’s experiences in Namibia influenced later policy at home is also critically evaluated, as is the matter of adjudicating the many South African anthropologists who supported the regime.
Table of Content
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
About the author
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.
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