In the early sixties, South Africas 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 Africas 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.

Robert J. Gordon is Emeritus Professor at the University of Vermont and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. His books includeGoing Abroad: Travelling like an Anthropologist (Routledge, 2010) and most recentlyThe Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of Luckyman in Africa (Nebraska, 2018) which was aChoice 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)

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