Bones and Bodies
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-723-6 (ISBN)
Bones and Bodies is a highly accessible account of the establishment of the scientific discipline of biological anthropology. Alan G Morris takes us back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of individual scientists and researchers who played a significant role in shaping perceptions of how peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern, came to be viewed and categorised both in the public imagination and the scientific literature.
Morris reveals how much of the earlier anthropological studies were tainted with the tarred brush of race science, evaluating the works of famous anthropologists and archaeologists such as Raymond Dart, Thomas Dreyer, Matthew Drennan and Robert Broom.
Morris also considers how modern anthropology tried to rid itself of the stigma of these early racist accounts. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ronald Singer and Phillip Tobias introduced modern methods into the discipline that disputed much of what the public wished to believe about race and human evolution.
Bones and Bodies shows the battle facing modern anthropology to acknowledge its racial past but also how its study of human variation remains an important field of enquiry at institutions of higher learning.
Alan G Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age and Historic populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa, as well as forensic anthropology.
List of Illustrations
A Note on the Use of Historical Terminology
Acknowledgements
List of Characters with Dates of Birth, Death and Affiliation
Schema of Types
Introduction
Chapter 1 Dr Louis Péringuey’s Well-Travelled Skeletons
Chapter 2 Boskop: The First South African Fossil Human Celebrity
Chapter 3 Matthew Drennan and the Scottish Influence in Cape Town
Chapter 4 The Age of Racial Typology in South Africa
Chapter 5 Raymond Dart’s Complicated Legacy
Chapter 6 Ronald Singer, Phillip Tobias and the ‘New Physical Anthropology’
Chapter 7 Physical Anthropology and the Administration of Apartheid
Chapter 8 The Politics of Racial Classification in Modern South Africa
Select Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77614-723-5 / 1776147235 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77614-723-6 / 9781776147236 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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