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Title: David Brokensha papers
Identifier/Call Number: UArch FacP 65
Language of Material: The collection is in English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
1.46 Linear Feet
(1 carton, 1 legal half-doc box)
Date (inclusive): 1957-2014
Abstract: Notes, writings, correspondence, and other related materials regarding David W. Brokensha's anthropolgical research. The papers
collected here mostly focus on...
Physical Location: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
The collection is open for research.
Donated by the Executor of Dr. Brokensha's estate, Christine Moir, who shipped the materials to UC Santa Barbara from South
Africa in 2017.
This collection has been left as it was gifted.
David Warwick Brokensha (23 May 1923 – 15 June 2017) was a South African anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, known for his work on Indigenous development and cultures in Africa and specializing
in cultural ecology and modernization.
Through the 1950s and into the mid'60s, David Brokensha and his life parter, Bernard Riley, lived in Africa, working in various
governmental and academic positions.
Dr. Brokensha's scholarly interests focused mainly on social and ecological changes in rural areas, especially in tropical
Africa, as well as development anthropology. In addition to his central research focus, Professor Brokensha also studied a
variety of classic anthropological topics, such as settlement patterns and resettlement practices in the context of economic
development; kinship and marriage practices; history of ethnology; subsistence practices; deforestation and environmental
change; and gender and labor. He also wrote and advised widely on topics pertaining to the training of social and development
workers, critically evaluating the inception and practice of development research in Africa. During his tenure at UC Santa
Barbara, Professor Brokensha published more than a dozen books and monographs, authored over 50 articles and book chapters,
and reviewed more than 40 books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Brokensha
https://es.ucsb.edu/people/david-brokensha
https://chancellor.ucsb.edu/memos/2017-07-10-sad-news-professor-emeritus-david-brokensha
[Identification of Item], David Brokensha papers, UArch FacP 65. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
This collection contains files generated by David Brokensa throughout his his professional career as a anthropologist and
professor, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960-1999. Materials include personal and professional writings, correspondence,
and prints and slides. Of note are Dr. Brokensha's notes, correspondence, and writings from his time working and researching
in Africa, mostly in Kenya and Ghana.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Archived links to David Brokensha's personal writings are available in the Manuscripts Collection and Faculty Sites collection
on the UCSB Internet Archive.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Anthropology
Professors