The Mobilization of Labour and the Production of Knowledge: The Antiquarian Tradition in Rhodesia

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Title:	The Mobilization of Labour and the Production of Knowledge: The Antiquarian Tradition in Rhodesia
Author:	Ranger, Terence O.
Year:	1979
Periodical:	The Journal of African History
Volume:	20
Issue:	4
Pages:	507-524
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	Zimbabwean studies customs health personnel biographies (form) History and Exploration Labor and Employment Education and Oral Traditions
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/181775
Abstract:	Information about Africans always had a practical application: employers needed to know about custom so that they could get the best value out of African labour. Together with Native Department officials doctors were taken as experts on Africans. Medical men had been involved as emissaries and negotiators in Rhodesia even before 1890. The author takes as illustration the career - medical and antiquarian - of J. Blake-Thompson, who came to Southern Rhodesia in 1921 and joined the British South Africa Police as a medical non-commissioned officer. At the end the author pays attention to the fact that Blake-Thompson's expertise was taken very seriously in the new academic historiography. Notes.