Webster, Anjuli2018-07-092018-07-092017Webster, Anjuli (2017) Silencing Africa? – Anthropological Knowledge at the University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24816>https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24816A research report submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the degree Master of Arts in Anthropology, March 2017In this research report I construct an intellectual history of anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Adopting a conjunctural approach, the report thinks through four moments in the genealogy of anthropology at Wits, from the establishment of the Bantu Studies Department in the 1920s, the neo-Marxist turn in the 1970s, the cultural turn in the 1990s, to the contemporary Department of Social Anthropology. At each moment, I trace the ways in which African thought and critique has been and is silenced to reproduce colonial unknowing in and the intellectual enclaving of anthropology in South Africa.Online resource (v, 74 pages)enAnthropology--South Africa---History--20th centuryAnthropology--Study and teaching (Higher)Blacks--South Africa--HistoryEthnology--History--20th centuryThesis