Monica Joye Wilson

The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa

Analysis of Social Change

The Oxford History of South Africa

Religion and the Transformation of Society: A Study in Social Change in Africa

For Men and Elders: Change in the Relations of Generations and of Men and Women Among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde People, 1875-1971

For Men and Elders: Change in the Relations of Generations and of Men and Women Among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde People, 1875-1971

... So Truth Be in the Field ...

Missionaries: Conquerors or Servants of God

The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa

Monica Wilson and the late Godfrey Wilson wrote this book as a result of field work in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, where they were able to observe the impact of European civilization upon traditional African societies and the structural changes that accompanied it. These effects are described here ...

Religion and the Transformation of Society: A Study in Social Change in Africa (Scott Holland Memorial Lectures,)

When previously isolated societies come into contact with the outside world they undergo certain obvious changes. Professor Wilson has long been interested in these changes, particularly as they affect the peoples of Africa as they come into ever closer contact with European society. She sees, as th...

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters (The International African Library)

Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s through a massive personal archive, the book ...

The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist

The life of Monica Wilson is a story of groundbreaking scholarship, passionate creativity and personal tragedy during South Africa’s bitter and divided twentieth century. As a young anthropologist in the 1930s, Monica immersed herself in the lives, work and beliefs of African communities in southern...

For Men and Elders: Change in the Relations of Generations and of Men and Women Among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde People, 1875-1971

Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa

Good Company: A Study of Nyakyusa Age-Villages

A study of a village system in Southern Tanganyika which is thought to be unique. Each village consists, not of a group of kinspeople, as in most primitive societies, but of an age-set--a group of contemporaries--together with their spouses and young children. The book is concerned with the structur...

Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusa.