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Interesting times, 1954-2004: a short history of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University / Short history of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University

On entering the Rhodes University Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at 6 Prince Alfred Street, visitors are confronted by a glass cabinet in which is displayed the four volumes of the Keiskammahoek Rural Survey (1947-1952); six of the volumes which emanated from the Border Regional Survey (1956-1964) of which three are the Xhosa in Town trilogy, and a modest paperback From Reserve To Region (1997), which records the changes which took place in Keiskammahoek between the birth of apartheid in 1948 and its demise in 1994. Together these may be seen as the charter documents of the ISER - rooted in empirical research in the Eastern Cape, multidisciplinary, substantial works of scholarship and, in the case of The Xhosa in Town trilogy, at least, of international repute.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:553
Date January 2004
CreatorsWhisson, Michael G., 1937-
PublisherInstitute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeBook, text
Format76 p.; ill.; 21 cm, pdf
RightsCC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

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