David J. Webster, A Sociedade Chope: Indívíduo e Aliança no Sul de Moçambique (1969-1976)

I was an undergraduate student of David Webster’s. He shared many stories about his fieldwork but never published the thesis which has eventually, about 30 years later, been translated into Portuguese. His students, including me and João de Pina Cabral, who initiated and edited this Portuguese edit...

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Izdano u:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etnografica,
Glavni autor: James, Deborah
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Etnográfica 2013
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak:I was an undergraduate student of David Webster’s. He shared many stories about his fieldwork but never published the thesis which has eventually, about 30 years later, been translated into Portuguese. His students, including me and João de Pina Cabral, who initiated and edited this Portuguese edition, knew him as preoccupied with Marxist theory and with matters such as proletarianisation, cheap labour power and exploitation. He seemed dismissive of his earlier work with the Chopi, on the gr...