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Hilda Kuper

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#443

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Hilda Kuper's Degrees

Bachelors Anthropology University of Cape Town
Masters Anthropology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Hilda Beemer Kuper was a social anthropologist most notable for her extensive work on Swazi culture. She started studying the Swazi culture and associating with the Swaziland's royal family after she was awarded with a grant by the International African Institute of London. She studied and illustrated Swazi traditions embodied in the political vision of King Sobhuza II, who later became a close friend. King Sobhuza II personally awarded Kuper with Swazi citizenship in 1970.

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Hilda Kuper's Published Works

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Published Works

An African Aristocracy: Rank Among the Swazi. (1948) (130)
Zulu Zion and Some Swazi Zionists (1976) (112)
The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space1 (1972) (108)
Indian people in Natal (1961) (105)
The Swazi, a South African Kingdom (1985) (103)
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State (1982) (97)
Witchcraft And Sorcery (1982) (66)
Urbanization and Migration in West Africa (1966) (65)
Costume and Identity (1973) (55)
Sobhuza II, Ngwenyama and King of Swaziland (1978) (41)
African Law: Adaptation and Development. (1966) (38)
Voluntary associations in an urban township (1944) (35)
Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology. (1949) (34)
The Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia (1954) (33)
Mauritius: Problems of a Plural Society (1965) (28)
A Ritual of Kingship among the Swazi (1944) (23)
Costume and Cosmology: The Animal Symbolism of the Ncwala (1973) (22)
The uniform of colour : a study of white-black relationships in Swaziland (1969) (22)
The Personal Approach in Cultural Anthropological Research [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (22)
Sobhuza Ii, Ngwenyama and King of Swaziland: The Story of an Hereditary Ruler and His Country (1978) (16)
A Royal Ritual in a Changing Political Context (1972) (13)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Zulu Transformations: A Study of the Dynamics of Social Change. Absolom Vilakazi (1964) (13)
The Swazi reaction to missions (1946) (11)
Experiment in Swaziland. (1966) (10)
An African Aristocracy: Rank among the Swazi (1982) (10)
A Witch in My Heart: A Play Set in Swaziland in the 1930s (1970) (9)
Changes in caste of the South African Indians (1955) (9)
Celebration of Growth and Kingship: Incwala in Swaziland (1968) (8)
The amino acid sequence of topi pancreatic ribonuclease. (1976) (8)
An African aristocracy : rank among the Swazi of Bechuanaland (1947) (7)
The Colonial Situation in Southern Africa (1964) (5)
An ethnographic description of a Hindustani marriage in Durban (1956) (5)
The Marriage of a Swazi Princess (1945) (5)
An interpretation of Hindu marriages in Durban (1957) (3)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PRIMITIVE NATION (1941) (3)
An ethnographic description of Kavady, a Hindu ceremony in South Africa (1959) (3)
Indian elites in Natal, South Africa (1956) (3)
Bite of hunger (1965) (3)
The uniform of colour in Swaziland (1943) (3)
A Witch in My Heart: A Play about the Swazi People (1971) (3)
Race Relations: The Interaction of Ethnic and Racial Groups (1952) (2)
Development and Change: Urbanization in Nigeria. AKIN L. MABOGUNJE (1972) (2)
Work, Missus? (Fiction) (1984) (2)
Zulu Zion and some Swazi Zionists . By Bengt Sundkler. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 337, plates, map. £8. (1978) (1)
Books Received (1994) (0)
The Drunken King, or the Origin of the State (1984) (0)
Studies of Indian Employment in Natal. By the Department of Economics, University of Natal. Volume 11 of Natal Regional Survey. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1961. Pp. 167, ill. 35s. (1963) (0)
The Present-Day Conditions of the South African Bantu@@@African Contrasts@@@The Uniform of Colour (1949) (0)
Philip Bonner, Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: the evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state . African Studies series, 31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 316 pp., £27.50. (1987) (0)
Culture Conflicts. By P. Kodanda Rao. Baroda: Padmaja Publications, 1946. 94 pp. Rs. 3/- (1948) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
Medicine among the south eastern Bantu (1936) (0)
Iris Andreski. Old Wives' Tales: Life Stories from Ibibioland. Pp. 190. New York: Schocken Books, 1970. $5.95 (1971) (0)
South Africa: Human Rights and Genocide (Part I) Biography as Interpretation (Part II) (1981) (0)
The Distribution of Population in Natal (Natal Regional Survey, Vol. Three) (1956) (0)
Ethnology: Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism. Axel-Ivar Berglund (1977) (0)
The Indians in Uganda: Caste and Sect in a Plural Society (1969) (0)
Grants for African Studies (U.S.A.) (1970) (0)
Ethnology: African Kingdoms. Lucy Mair (1979) (0)
South Africa : human rights and genocide . Biography as interpretation (1980) (0)
Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law.@@@African Law: Adaptation and Development. (1974) (0)
Social Facts and Fabrications: “Customary” Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880–1980. Sally Falk Moore. (1987) (0)

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