Isaac Schapera

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.

Education

* South African College School, Cape Town
* University of Cape Town (MA 1925)
* University of London (PhD 1929, DSc 1939)

Career

* Professor. of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, 1935-50
* Professor of Anthropology, LSE, 1950-69 (Hon. Fellow, 1974) then Emeritus Professor
* Visiting Professor: University of Chicago, 1948; University of Toronto, 1953.

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

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