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Lindsay Robb, R. (survey director) : Keiskammahoek Rural Survey

(Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1952)

The complete set of four volumes. The first book, edited by Edgar D. Mountain, is entitled 'The Natural History of the Keiskammhoek District'. The second, by D. Hobart Houghton and Edith M. Walton, is entitled 'The Economy of a Native Reserve'. The third, by Monica Wilson and others, is called 'Social Structure', while the fourth, by M. E. Elton Mills and Monica Wilson, deals with 'Land Tenure'. Four 8vo volumes; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spines and upper covers; dustwrappers; pp. (viii) + 85, xii + 194, (vi) + 222, incl. index, x + 154, incl. index; the series illustrated throughout with maps, tables, graphs, and some photographs, the first volume with three folding maps in an end-pocket, the third volume with two folding maps and a folding genealogical table in an end-pocket, and the fourth volume with three folding colour maps in an end-pocket. Dustwrappers generally edgeworn, somewhat torn, and foxed, that of the third volume with loss to upper panel; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper of first and fourth volumes; some rippling to leaves of first volume; some sporadic foxing. Good. An uncommon set in complete form. "The National Council for Social Research initiated and financed an investigation into the conditions of life in a typical Native Reserve. The Keiskammahoek District in the Ciskei, in the eastern part of the Union of South Africa, was selected for this intensive rural survey, which was an investigation into the physical environment and the social and economic conditions in an area of about 220 square miles with a population of about 18,000 persons, the vast majority of whom were Africans. The survey, which extended over the period 1947 to 1951, was directed by Professor Lindsay Robb, previously a research professor at Pretoria University. It was carried out by voluntary workers from the universities and by officers seconded from various government departments together with a small paid staff. ... This Native Reserve has been under European Administration for nearly a hundred years and the description of the prevailing conditions, of poverty, of mass emigration and disrupted families, and of the destruction of pasture and soil, is of vital importance to all who are interested in the social and economic advancement of the African peoples."

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