ABSTRACT
Developing alongside social anthropology was a South African archaeological tradition that was to parallel social anthropology and take the lead in Bushman studies until the dawn of the modern era of Kalahari ethnography in the 1950s. The professionalization of archaeology in South Africa began with A. J. H. Goodwin. He graduated from Cambridge in 1922 with a degree in archaeology, and with A. C. Haddon as one of his mentors. He became research assistant in ethnology at Cape Town in 1923, and there did library research under A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. ‘Sakkie’ or ‘Schap’ as he became known to his friends and colleagues, was in fact the only Cape Town student to see through an undergraduate training with Radcliffe-Brown. Isaac Schapera was later to hold Radcliffe-Brown’s old chair at Cape Town, and to return as professor to the London School of Economics.
