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Author Gordon, Robert J. (Robert James), 1940- author.

Title South Africa's dreams : ethnologists and apartheid in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages) : maps (some color)
Contents Introduction -- Beleaguered Knowledge: The Interwar Irrelevance of Anthropological Expertise -- Post-World War II Ethnological Dispositions in a Disputed Territory -- Performing for All the World to See: Bruwer and the Fashioning of Modern Namibia -- From WHAM to Countermobilization -- Bringing Bonn Back In -- Conclusion. "Have We Met the Enemy and (S)he Is Us?" (Pogo)
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2021)
Subject Apartheid -- Namibia.
Ethnology -- Political aspects -- Namibia
Apartheid
Colonization
Ethnology -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Namibia -- History -- 1915-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089651
Namibia -- History -- 1946-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089652
Namibia -- Colonization
Subject Namibia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020053933
ISBN 1789209757
9781789209754