SCHAPERA, Isaac, b 1905, social anthropologist c1929-c1982

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SCHAPERA, Isaac, b 1905, social anthropologist c1929-c1982

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British library of political and economic science

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Isaac Schapera was born in 1905 in Garies in Little Namaqualand, south of the Orange River in the Northwestern Cape. Here he acquired a fluency in Afrikaans and an interest in the peoples around him. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town where he intended to study law, but after attending a course of lectures by A R Radcliffe-Brown, he changed to anthropology. After completing his masters degree in 1925, Schapera was accepted as a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics. He joi...