South Africa's Dreams : : Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia / / Robert J. Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Gordon, Robert J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)

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 Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Beleaguered Knowledge: The Interwar Irrelevance of Anthropological Expertise -- 2. Post–World War II Ethnological Dispositions in a Disputed Territory -- 3. Performing for All the World to See: Bruwer and the Fashioning of Modern Namibia -- 4. From WHAM to Countermobilization -- 5. Bringing Bonn Back In -- Conclusion. “Have We Met the Enemy and (S)He Is Us?” (Pogo) -- References -- Index