Metadata: Schapera, Isaac, b 1905, social anthropologist
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Reference number:
- Schapera
- Title:
- Schapera, Isaac, b 1905, social anthropologist
- Title (official language):
- Schapera, Isaac, b 1905, social anthropologist
- Creator/accumulator:
- Schapera, Isaac, b 1905, social anthropologist
- Date(s):
- 1919/1992
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 19 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Schapera's field notebooks from his work in Botswana (then Bechuanaland), recording work on the Kgatta, Kwena, Ngwato and Ngwakelse tribes; working papers and notes, including genealogies of royal families, correspondence, drafts of an unpublished book on David Livingstone; various printed documents on the subject of Botswana; and books from Schapera's library on the subject of David Livingstone.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Isaac Schapera, 1905-2003, was born in Garies, Namaqualand, Cape Colony, to Jewish immigrant parents Herman and Rosa Schapera from Belarus. 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 joined Malinowski's seminar and was for a time his research assistant. His supervisor was C G Seligman. He held an assistant lectureship at LSE for a year, 1928-1929, and then returned to South Africa.He lectured for a year at the University of Witwatersrand and then returned to the University of Cape Town, where he was made Professor in 1935.In 1950, he returned to the LSE where he accepted a chair in anthropology. He retired from teaching in 1969. Over the years, Schapera made many trips to Botswana and had a deep interest in the history of the Tswana people. As part of his historical research, he made a study of missionary records, and undertook the editing of Robert Moffat's journals and letters and the unpublished writings of David Livingstone.
- Access points: locations:
- Botswana
- Access points: persons/families:
- Schapera, Isaac
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SCHAPERA
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 29, 2002
- British Library of Political and Economic Science