jan 1, 1943 - Godfrey Wilson

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Rhodes Livingstone Institute, 1st dir.

situation urbaine
"détribalisation"
use concept of class to theorise urban social context

Malinowsky's functional method
committed to an anthropology of 'public service'. clearly anti-colo
+ Marxism (kinda hidden)

Broken Hill, Copperbelt. mining, railway junction.
declared pacifist. Indeed, his research quickly attracted suspicion (and opposition) from
colonial administration and mining companies alike, leading to accusation of ‘fraternisation’
with the African population, his research permit to be revoked, and Wilson to resign (Brown
1973).
racial divide // miners as well > turning 'a class into a caste system' (1941 : 28) ="racial class-system"
main theoretical scheme, grounded in the political economy, and argued that local racial tensions were essentially ‘the inevitable fruit of an unbalanced world economy dominated by capital accumulation’ (1941: 29). = c/txt BH in a world economy w/ disproportionate accumulation

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