Bank, AndrewShaik, Zuleika Bibi2021-04-092024-03-262021-04-092024-03-262020https://hdl.handle.net/10566/9759Magister Artium - MAThis mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented with creative forms of ethnography were doubly marginalised: first as women in an androcentric male canon in British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology, and second as creative writers whose work has been consistently undervalued in sombre scholarly circles. The study proposes that Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911-1995) and Edith Turner (1921-2016) should be regarded as significant in a still unexcavated literary tradition or subgenre with Anglo-American anthropology.enHumanistic themesFemale-dominated traditionSwazi co-wivesHumanist cross-cultural engagementUniversity of Western Cape