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Isaac Schapera, FBA, FRSSAf (23 June 1905, Garies, South Africa - 26 June 2003, London) was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen.
[edit] Education
[edit] Career
[edit] Positions and honours
- Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, 1934
- FBA, 1958
- Chairman, Association of Social Anthropologists of the British Commonwealth, 1954-57
- President, RAI, 1961-63
[edit] Publications
- The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, 1930
- A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom, 1938
- Married Life in an African Tribe, 1940
- Native Land Tenure in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1943
- Migrant Labour and Tribal Life, 1948
- The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes, 1952; The Tswana, 1953
- Government and Politics in Tribal Societies, 1956
- Praise Poems of Tswana Chiefs, 1965
- Tribal Innovators, 1970
- Rainmaking Rites of Tswana Tribes, 1971
- Kinship Terminology in Jane Austen's Novels, 1977
- Editor of:
- Western Civilization and the Natives of South Africa, 1934
- The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa, 1937
- David Livingstone's Journals and Letters 1841-1856 (6 vols), 1959-63
- David Livingstone: South African papers 1849-1853, 1974
