The Social Sciences in Africa South of the Sahara: The British Contribution

Abstract

During the period between the two world wars, much research in social anthropology in Africa was financed by the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation, partly by direct awards of fellowships to individuals and partly through its contributions to the International African Institute. Apart from the small number of men seconded from administrative duties to work as government anthropologists, most of the British anthropologists who did fieldwork at this time were financed from one or other of these two sources.