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:''Not to be confused with the anthropologist David Webster of Penn State University, or the social historian David Webster of the University of Toronto'' David Webster (1945 – May 1, 1989) was a South African social anthropologist. ==Life== David Joseph Webster was born in 1945 in Northern Rhodesia, where his father worked as a miner in the copper belt. He studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he was involved in student politics.〔 In 1970, Webster started teaching anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His doctorate had been written on a traditional topic of anthropology (kinship), but it was focused on a politically explosive field, namely migrant workers from Mozambique. In 1976, he was invited to teach for two years at the University of Manchester in the UK. Webster was active in the political anti-Apartheid movement, especially in the 1980s for the Detainees' Parents' Support Committee (DPSC), an organisation advocating the release of political detainees held without trial in South Africa.〔 Webster was shot dead outside his house by assassins in the employ of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, a clandestine state agency.〔("The night Ferdi Barnard told me he killed" ), Nov 21 1997, Mail & Guardian〕 The hit squad was paid R40,000 (at the time, equivalent to about US$8,000) for his murder. Ferdi Barnard, the man who pulled the trigger on the shotgun used, was later tried and found guilty in 1998; he was sentenced to two life terms plus 63 years for a number of crimes, including the murder of Webster.〔("Ferdi Barnard is found guilty of killing Webster" ), sahistory.org.za〕 Thousands of people attended his funeral service at St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Webster (anthropologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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