David P Crandall

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This year, 2007, has been spent on the von Eckenbrecher project, which entails translating a classic German Female Colonial memoir, first published in 1908, written by Margarethe von Eckenbrecher, about her experience in South West Africa (now Namibia) as a single mother of two boys. The memoir covers the time period 1902 -1903 (Part I) and 1911 - 1936 (Part II). It is the best book of its genre and I have been helped in assembling further material by von Eckenbrecher's grandson, H.H. von Eckenbrecher who lives in Cape Town. The project in nearly complete--just a final careful proofing of the entire document. Late February, early March query letters will go out to various university presses: Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Chicago, etc.

David P. Crandall. The Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge into Anthropological Knowledge: Whose Knowledge Is It?. Knowing How To Know, ed. Narmala Halstead.