Dr Louis Péringuey's well-travelled skeletons -- Boskop : the first South African fossil human celebrity -- Matthew Drennan and the Scottish Influence in Cape Town -- The age of racial typology in South Africa -- Raymond Dart's complicated legacy -- Ronald Singer, Phillip Tobias and the 'new physical anthropology' -- Physical anthropology and the administration of apartheid -- The politics of racial classification in modern South Africa.
Summary:
Alan G Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the stories and implicit racial biases of physical anthropology scientists and researchers, and how they influenced perceptions of the peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.