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Monica Wilson, née Hunter (1908 - 26 October 1982) was a South African anthropologist, professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town. == Life == Monica Hunter was born to missionary parents in Lovedale in the Eastern Cape, speaking Xhosa from childhood. She studied history at Girton College, Cambridge before gaining a Cambridge doctorate in anthropology in 1934. Her thesis, the fieldwork for which was undertaken with the Pondo in the Eastern Cape between 1931 and 1933, was presented in the monograph ''Reaction to Conquest''.〔'Professor Monica Wilson', ''The Times'', 1 November 1982.〕 Marrying Godfrey Wilson in 1935, the pair undertook fieldwork with the Nyakyusa in Tanzania between 1935 and 1938. Their fieldwork was sponsored by the International African Institute,〔 Godfrey Wilson died in 1944. Monica taught at the University College of Fort Hare from 1944 to 1946 and at Rhodes University from 1947 to 1951. She was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town from 1952 until retirement in 1973.〔 She died at Hogsback, Eastern Cape.〔 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「Monica Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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