A Derrocada Do Imperio Vatua E Mousinho D'Albuquerque

TOSCANA, Francisco & QUINTINHA, Juliao.

Published by Ultramar Ltd, Lisbon, Portugal, 1930

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Publishing Info: 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by author. Inscribed and signed by author to prologue page. Dated 1932. Description: Half calf leather binding with tortoise shell boards. Presentation plate to front paste down dated 1939 gifting book to Professor I Schapera of the University of Cape Town. Two fold out maps. Language: Portuguese. Book Condition> Good: Heavy wear to corners and edges. Wear and rubbing to spine ends and spine ridges. Rubbing and scuffing to boards. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Bookplate to front paste down with further plate residue to both ffep and paste down. Name to ffep. Inscription to page 9 signed by author. 4cm tear to lower edge of last fold out map next to gutter. Heavy tanning to pages and text block edges. DJ Condition> Na. 473pp. Size: 12mo (large), 19cm by 12.5cm. Provenance: Presentation plate dated 1939 to Professor I Schapera of the University of Cape Town. Provenance Background: Isaac Schapera, anthropologist: born Garies, South Africa 23 June 1905; Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town 1935-50; Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics 1950-69 (Emeritus); FBA 1958; died London 26 June 2003 Isaac Schapera was the last of a formidable trio of South African-born anthropologists whose writing and teaching were central to the foundation of the social anthropology of Africa He was also the last link with the famous seminar held by Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics in which anthropology as an academic discipline was established Labelling himself an ethnographer, he compared his work to that of an economic historian His meticulously detailed studies of the Tswana people of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) constitute a lasting and exemplary body of work At the age of 20 he obtained an MA in social anthropology and went to England as a graduate student to work for a PhD under Professor CG Seligman, the anthropologist of the Sudan He worked as a research assistant for Malinowski Schapera returned to South Africa in 1929 and after a year teaching at Witwatersrand University, he moved to Cape Town, becoming Professor in 1935 His published work includesÊ'A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom'Ê(1938) which was requested by the Tswana chiefs themselves is still in use in Tswana courts He wrote on social change and tribal law as well as on migrant labour, land tenure and the impoverishment caused by the alienation of land to white farmers He also published in Sechuana a number of texts on oral history which were used in Tswana schools for many years In 1939 he was made a Doctor of Science by London University 1950 appointed to a Chair at the London School of Economics and moved to London, where he lived until his death He became a leading figure in the anthropological community, a founding member and then chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists (1954-57) and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1961-63) He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1958. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required. Seller Inventory # 6630

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Derrocada Do Imperio Vatua E Mousinho ...

Publisher: Ultramar Ltd, Lisbon, Portugal

Publication Date: 1930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Na

Signed: Inscribed and signed by author

Edition: 1st Edition.