Rhodes-Livingstone Institute

The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (RLI) was the first local anthropological research facility in Africa; it was founded in 1938 under the initial directorship of Godfrey Wilson. Designed to allow for easier study of the local cultures of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, it became the base of operations for a number of leading anthropologists of the time.

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The RLI anthropologists have been lauded by some as liberal, anti-racists, furthering the cause of African independence. Among the participating anthropologists at the RLI, In addition to Wilson, were Monica Hunter Wilson, Max Gluckman, J. Desmond Clark, Elizabeth Colson, E.L. Epstein, J. Clyde Mitchell, and William Watson.

Others have called attention to what they regard as misguidedness on the part of the RLI anthropologists, stemming from the fact that they were embedded in the colonial system and blind to its reality as a component in dialectic study.[1][2] For more favorable and well-supported accounts, compare the deep and detailed study by Lyn Schumaker (2001) and the shorter chapter by Richard Brown (1973).[3][4]

Publications

The Institute published a series of papers:

  • No. 1 - 1938 - ?? [5]
  • No. 2 - 1938 - ?? [6]
  • No. 3 - 1939 - The Constitution of Rhodesia[7]
  • No. 4 - 1939 - ?? [8]
  • No. 5 - 1941 - An Essay on the Economics of Detribalization in Northern Rhodesia - Part 1 by G.Wilson.[9]
  • No. 6 - 1942 - An Essay on the Economics of Detribalization in Northern Rhodesia - Part 2 by G.Wilson.[10]
  • No. 7 - 1941 - Economy of the Central Barotse Plain. By Max Gluckman.[11]
  • No. 8 - 1942 - Good out of Africa. By A. T. Culwick

[12]

  • No. 9 - 1968 - The African as ??? and adult"[13]
  • No. 10 - 1943 - Lozi Land Tenure[14]
  • No. 12 - 1946 - Fishermen of the Bangweulu Swamps[15]
  • No. 13 - 1948 - Roøiyard by E.Hellmann.
  • No. 18 - ???? - Gusii Bridewealth: Law and Custom by Philip Mason
  • No. 21 - 1951 - ? on the Luapula[16]
  • No. 26 - 1956 - A Social Survey of the African Population of Livingstone. by Merran McCulIoch.
  • No. 30 - 1961 - [unreadable] [17]

Also a series of Occasional Papers[18]

References
  1. Ferguson, James. 1999, Expectations of Modernity, Berkeley, LA, London. University of California Press
  2. Magubane, Bernard. 1971, "A Critical Look at the Indices Used in the Study of Social Change in Colonial Africa". Current Anthropology. 12(4/5): 419-445
  3. Schumaker, Lyn. 2001, Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge In Central Africa. Durham, London. Duke University Press.
  4. Brown, Richard, 1973, "Anthropology and Colonial Rule: Godfrey Wilson and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute". In Talal Asad, ed. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. New York, Humanities Press.
  5. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=V4wLAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  6. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=V4wLAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  7. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=SVc0AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  8. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=V4wLAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  9. https://brill.com/previewpdf/journals/jaas/1/1/article-p35_5.xml
  10. https://brill.com/previewpdf/journals/jaas/1/1/article-p35_5.xml
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20081211101713/http://www.pulfordmedia.co.uk/i_pages/i_features/african.htm
  12. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/good-out-of-africa-by-a-t-culwick-rhodeslivingstone-papers-no-8-rhodeslivingstone-institute1942-pp-43-2s/56DB4FBF1F9F10D915FC7BA971DBCE77
  13. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=KeAuAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  14. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=IFc0AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  15. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=_2g0AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  16. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rhodes_Livingstone_Papers.html?id=_VU0AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
  17. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7uAuAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  18. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Occasional-Rhodes-Livingstone-Institute-African-Studies/dp/0719012732
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