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Title: | Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann from Leipzig to Potchefstroom University: scholarly committed, ethically ambivalent |
Author: | Jansen van Rensburg, N.S. |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | Anthropology Southern Africa (ISSN 2332-3264) |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Pages: | 198-215 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Germany |
Subjects: | academics anthropology political ideologies |
About person: | Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann (1887-1969) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2015.1079140 |
Abstract: | While Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann, Potchefstroom's first 'volkekunde' [ethnology] professor, worked and associated with well-known and ardent supporters of the Nazi government in Germany, his German colleagues critiqued his lukewarm commitment to Nazism. Later, this political ambivalence also marked his time in apartheid South Africa. This paper is an examination of how one ethnologist, caught between the two regimes of National Socialism and apartheid, managed to negotiate his way through them. Lehmann's political choices exemplify a person who does not oppose regimes head-on, but uses the opportunities they present to further his own academic career. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |