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Picturing a colonial past : the African photographs of Isaac Schapera
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Picturing a colonial past : the African photographs of Isaac Schapera

Isaac Schapera

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Editorial note
Isaac Schapera, two portraits of the ethnographer
Letter from Chief Linchwe II of the Kgatla
Introduction: The portraits of an ethnographer as a young man / Jean and John Comaroff
Isaac Schapera (1905-2003) : his life and times / Adam Kuper
The Bakgatla Bagakgafêla : preliminary report of field investigations, 1933 / Isaac Schapera
African images : the photographs of Isaac Schapera in Bechuanaland and elsewhere, 1929-1940
Motse : the architecture of village life
Mo gae : domestic scenes
Ditshwantshó : portraits
Bana : children, at play and work
Bogwêra : initiation rites
Tiro : the work of production
Moroka : the rainmaker
Kgotla : the public sphere
Banna ba ditshaba : others.

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Picturing a colonial past : the African photographs of Isaac Schapera by Isaac Schapera. ISBN 9780226114125. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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