Acknowledgments  

1. The Water Follows the Stream   

2. Contexts and Chronologies  

3. Archetypal Experiences  

4. The Laboratory in the Field  

5. A Lady and an American  

6. Atop the Central African Volcano  

7. Africanizing Anthropology  

8. The Culture of Fieldwork  

Epilogue  

Notes  

Bibliography  

Index  

“[A] fascinating book . . . . [T]hough the focus is on [a] small band of scholars, the author’s original topic and analytical procedure (more ethnography than intellectual history) will influence many. This important book belongs in every academic library.”—W. Arens, Choice

"Schumaker’s study is a useful volume full of information . . . . It is the best available account we have . . . . Schumaker has provided so much information in a fair and accessible way."

—T.O. Beidelman, Anthropos

“Lyn Schumaker’s splendid history provides a balanced and sensitive account of the growth of a particular form of the discipline.”—Peter Fry, Times Literary Supplement

"It is the great virtue of Lyn Schumaker’s study that it forces readers to think in a more nuanced and case-specific manner about the ‘colonial situation’ of anthropology. . . . Throughout, Schumaker displays a wonderfully nuanced and wide-ranging contextual understanding of issues that are all too often assumed rather than ‘open for investigation.’ . . . Schumaker has produced a work that will be of substantial interest not only to anthropologists and their historians, but to historians of science generally, and beyond to students of African history and the history of European colonialism."
—George W. Stocking, Jr., American Historical Review

"[F]ascinating. . . . [I]nteresting. . . . The great strength of the book is the meticulous detail it presents from the two sides of a mutually beneficial relationship between anthropologists and their assistants. . . . Schumaker must be congratulated for having had the courage to confront some of the most enduring myths on the question. She must also be praised for providing one of the very first analytical accounts of the work of anthropologists in Africa that takes seriously the contribution made by Africans themselves."—Patrick Chabal, International Affairs

"Schumaker’s narrative is illuminating. . . ."—Harri Englund, African Studies Review

"[A] remarkable book. . . . Africanizing Anthropology is a meticulous, innovative contribution to the intellectual history of Africa and to anthropological enquiry. . . . One can only hope it will inspire further research into the processes of intellectual work in Africa and elsewhere."—Jane L. Parpart, International Journal of African Historical Studies

"[O]bligatory reading for any Africanist working in the region."—Jan Kees van Donge, Journal of Modern African Studies

"[An] empirically rich book. . . ." —Blair Rutherford, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

"Those involved with central African history and ethnography will find Africanizing Anthropology of most direct interest. . . . Schumaker deserves a wider readership, however, for her inversion of perspectives joins subaltern, politique-par-le-bas, and related efforts to respond to the rarely answered call for a holistic approach integrating the ethnography of observed and observer. . . ." —Allen Roberts, Africa Today

"[A] fine book. . . . At this time in the history of the discipline, when public interest in anthropology . . . is again waning, anthropologists would do well to read this book carefully and ponder its significance for the present." —Edwin N. Wilmsen, Africa

"[F]ascinating reading. . . . Schumaker has written a superb history of one of the great fieldwork experiences of anthropology, highlighting many issues of on-going concern to anthropology. Her writing style makes the history accessible even to readers unfamiliar with the RLI and Manchester School."
—John Gill, Anthropology Review Database

"Lyn Schumaker's great achievement in this book is to delineate the tensions and power relations that made up the field in this crucial period of the formation of anthropology as a discipline."—Henrietta L. Moore, Current Anthropology

“[A] fascinating book . . . . [T]hough the focus is on [a] small band of scholars, the author’s original topic and analytical procedure (more ethnography than intellectual history) will influence many. This important book belongs in every academic library.”—W. Arens, Choice

"Schumaker’s study is a useful volume full of information . . . . It is the best available account we have . . . . Schumaker has provided so much information in a fair and accessible way."

—T.O. Beidelman, Anthropos

“Lyn Schumaker’s splendid history provides a balanced and sensitive account of the growth of a particular form of the discipline.”—Peter Fry, Times Literary Supplement

"It is the great virtue of Lyn Schumaker’s study that it forces readers to think in a more nuanced and case-specific manner about the ‘colonial situation’ of anthropology. . . . Throughout, Schumaker displays a wonderfully nuanced and wide-ranging contextual understanding of issues that are all too often assumed rather than ‘open for investigation.’ . . . Schumaker has produced a work that will be of substantial interest not only to anthropologists and their historians, but to historians of science generally, and beyond to students of African history and the history of European colonialism."
—George W. Stocking, Jr., American Historical Review

"[F]ascinating. . . . [I]nteresting. . . . The great strength of the book is the meticulous detail it presents from the two sides of a mutually beneficial relationship between anthropologists and their assistants. . . . Schumaker must be congratulated for having had the courage to confront some of the most enduring myths on the question. She must also be praised for providing one of the very first analytical accounts of the work of anthropologists in Africa that takes seriously the contribution made by Africans themselves."—Patrick Chabal, International Affairs

"Schumaker’s narrative is illuminating. . . ."—Harri Englund, African Studies Review

"[A] remarkable book. . . . Africanizing Anthropology is a meticulous, innovative contribution to the intellectual history of Africa and to anthropological enquiry. . . . One can only hope it will inspire further research into the processes of intellectual work in Africa and elsewhere."—Jane L. Parpart, International Journal of African Historical Studies

"[O]bligatory reading for any Africanist working in the region."—Jan Kees van Donge, Journal of Modern African Studies

"[An] empirically rich book. . . ." —Blair Rutherford, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

"Those involved with central African history and ethnography will find Africanizing Anthropology of most direct interest. . . . Schumaker deserves a wider readership, however, for her inversion of perspectives joins subaltern, politique-par-le-bas, and related efforts to respond to the rarely answered call for a holistic approach integrating the ethnography of observed and observer. . . ." —Allen Roberts, Africa Today

"[A] fine book. . . . At this time in the history of the discipline, when public interest in anthropology . . . is again waning, anthropologists would do well to read this book carefully and ponder its significance for the present." —Edwin N. Wilmsen, Africa

"[F]ascinating reading. . . . Schumaker has written a superb history of one of the great fieldwork experiences of anthropology, highlighting many issues of on-going concern to anthropology. Her writing style makes the history accessible even to readers unfamiliar with the RLI and Manchester School."
—John Gill, Anthropology Review Database

"Lyn Schumaker's great achievement in this book is to delineate the tensions and power relations that made up the field in this crucial period of the formation of anthropology as a discipline."—Henrietta L. Moore, Current Anthropology

“Schumaker’s work, which takes a completely different approach to the study of anthropology, is by far the most revealing account I have ever read, not only of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute but of anthropology in Africa. Both highly innovative and extremely convincing, it sets new standards for Southern African intellectual history.”—Terence Ranger, University of Zimbabwe

“This is one of those rare books that is capable of shaping basic understandings among several disparate audiences at the same time—among anthropologists, for whom it will be a revelation about the role of research assistants in shaping the discipline, among historians of science, who will gain important new insights about colonialism and the field sciences, and among historians, who will see anthropology and history in a new light. Schumaker addresses familiar issues concerning anthropology and colonialism, and replaces pious generalizations with textured descriptions based on excellent sources.”—Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania

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