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The Last White Christmas: The Heidelberg Pub Massacre
Author(s) -
ScheperHughes Nancy
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1994.96.4.02a00030
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , cape , ethnography , history , geography , genealogy , demography , ethnology , archaeology , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
In the last holiday season before free elections in South Africa, a massacre takes place in a Cape Town pub frequented by blacks and whites. Visiting the morgue while survivors arrive to identify the dead, and later participating in a therapeutic postmassacre trauma group, the author ponders the limits of ethnographic field inquiry.