Making the past for South Africa's future: The prehistory of field-Marshal Smuts (1920s-1940s)

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 291, 2002, Pages 200-209

  Schlanger, Nathan ^a  

^a Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art   (France)

Author keywords

Archaeological research; Archives; Geopolitics; History of archaeology; Jan Christiaan Smuts; Patronage; Politics; Segregation; Sociology of science; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040078355     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00089997     Document Type: Article

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