Isaac ('Schap') Schapera

Prof. Isaac ('Schap') Schapera MA FRS(SA)
Born	1905
Died	2003
Residence	London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2 [1927] c/o The University, PO Box 594, Cape Town, S. Africa [1931] The University, Cape Town; Prof. of Anthropology, London School of Economics Dept. of Anthropology, The University, PO Box 594, Cape Town, South Africa [1935]
Occupation	academic anthropologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow - life local correspondent (south Africa) 1939 elected_AI 1927.01.19 1926 societies Royal Society (South Africa) International Institute of African Languages and Culture South African Association for the Advancement of Science American Anthropological Association Royal African Society

Notes

Office Notes

President 1961-3

House Notes

1925.12.15 proposed by A. Radcliffe-Brown, seconded by E.N. Fallaize
1939.02.21 The following were added [to the list of Local Correspondents]: ... Prof. I. Schapera ...
1939 Rivers Memorial Medal for field work in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
1969 HML The crime of sorcery

Notes From Elsewhere

SCHAPERA, ISAAC (1905–2003), South African anthropologist. Born in South Africa, Schapera taught at the London School of Economics as assistant in anthropology (1928–29), served as lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1930), and at the University of Cape Town as senior lecturer and professor (1930–50). In 1950 he was appointed professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Schapera conducted several anthropological field expeditions to the Bechuanaland Protectorate between 1929 and 1950. He contributed to the discipline of applied anthropology by his study of labor migration in Bechuanaland – its causes and effects both positive and negative – and so served as a guide for colonial policy. From 1961 to 1963 he was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Publications

External Publications

Government and Politics in Tribal Societies (1956),

Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom (1938, 19552),

Migrant Labour and Tribal Life (1947), and

edited Bantu-Speaking Tribes of South Africa (1937), and David Livingstone's Letters and Journals.

House Publications

Feb. 4 1936 read Tribal politics, rainmaking and the Levirate among the Christianized Kxatla of Bechuanaland Protectorate

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