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Anthropology as a Public Service
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Opening ParagraphFor many years colonial governments in Africa have made occasional use of the services of trained social anthropologists. Sometimes they have employed them directly as ‘Government Anthropologists’, sometimes they have subsidized students in the employ of scientific bodies for particular pieces of research. But it was left for Sir Hubert Young, as Governor of Northern Rhodesia, to set up in 1937 the first institute for systematic sociological research in colonial Africa.
Title: Anthropology as a Public Service
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Opening ParagraphFor many years colonial governments in Africa have made occasional use of the services of trained social anthropologists.
Sometimes they have employed them directly as ‘Government Anthropologists’, sometimes they have subsidized students in the employ of scientific bodies for particular pieces of research.
But it was left for Sir Hubert Young, as Governor of Northern Rhodesia, to set up in 1937 the first institute for systematic sociological research in colonial Africa.
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