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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan Schlanger
Nathan Schlanger*
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AREA project, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France. area@inha.fr
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Introduction: turns and returns

When politicians engage in archaeology, it is convenient for all concerned to say that they ‘turn’ to it: for both parties, this move confirms that the discipline itself is essentially neutral and independent from extrinsic considerations. Already subject to much suspicion, this comforting conception can be further undermined with the case of Field-Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), for half a century South Africa's leading soldier, statesman and intellectual, as well as a driving force behind the setting up of the Commonwealth and the LJnited Nations (FIGURE 1).

Keywords

Jan Christiaan SmutsSouth Africaarchaeological researchsociology of sciencepatronagepoliticsgeopoliticssegregationarchiveshistory of archaeology
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Special section: Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 291 , March 2002 , pp. 200 - 209
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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