Creating Order: Image of the Homestead in Mpondo Social Life

Kuckertz, Heinz

ISBN 10: 1868140865 / ISBN 13: 9781868140862

Published by Wits University Press, 1990

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9781868140862.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Order: Image of the Homestead in Mpondo Social Life
• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1868140865
• ISBN 13: 9781868140862
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

In this micro-study of the remote Transkeian village of Caguba, from the perspective of a fieldworker living and participating in the community, Heinz Kuckertz challenges many of the prevailing currents of anthropological thought. This book is one of the few community studies, based on detailed fieldwork, to come out of the region since the Golden Age of South African ethnography, distinguished by the classics of Junod, Hunter, the Kriges and Kuper. Heinz Kuckertz came to South Africa in 1967 after completing studies in theology and philosophy at a seminary run by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit - a missionary congregation of the Catholic Church. His study of social anthropology and general linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand led to a doctorate in anthropology. At present Father Kuckertz is Principal Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Southern Africa.