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Hilda Kuper was born on 23 August, 1911 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, is a South African anthropologist. Discover Hilda Kuper's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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Leo |
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23 August 1911 |
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23 August |
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Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia |
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23 April, 1992 |
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Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Rhodesia
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Hilda Kuper Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Hilda Kuper's Husband?
Her husband is Leo Kuper
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Hilda Kuper Net Worth
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Hilda Beemer Kuper (née Beemer; 23 August 1911 – 23 April 1992 ) was a social anthropologist most notable for her extensive work on Swazi culture.
She started studying the Swazi culture and associating with the Swaziland's royal family after she was awarded with a grant by the International African Institute of London.
She studied and illustrated Swazi traditions embodied in the political vision of King Sobhuza II, who later became a close friend.
In 1934, Kuper won a fellowship from the International African Institute to study in Swaziland.
In July of that year, while at an education conference in Johannesburg, she met Sobhuza II, paramount chief and later king of Swaziland.
With assistance from Sobhuza and Malinowski, Kuper moved to the royal village of Lobamba and was introduced to Sobhuza's mother, the queen mother Lomawa.
Here Kuper learned siSwati and pursued her fieldwork.
They had two daughters, Mary and Jenny.
Her nephew, Adam Kuper, is also an anthropologist.
This phase of Kuper's researches into Swazi culture culminated in the two-part dissertation, An African Aristocracy: Rank among the Swazi (1947) and The Uniform of Colour: a Study of White–Black Relationships in Swaziland (1947).
In the early 1950s, Kuper moved to Durban.
In 1953, Kuper received a senior lectureship at the University of Natal in Durban.
In addition to her academic work, together with her husband, Leo Kuper, she helped to found the Liberal Party in Natal
During that decade, she focused her studies on the Indian community in the Natal region, as summarised in Indian People in Natal (1960).
In 1961 the Kupers moved to Los Angeles, to escape the harassment of liberals that was increasingly prevalent in apartheid South Africa, and to enable Leo to accept a professorship in sociology at UCLA.
In 1963 Kuper published The Swazi: a South African Kingdom and was herself appointed professor of anthropology at UCLA.
Kuper was a popular teacher, and In 1969 won a Guggenheim fellowship.
King Sobhuza II personally awarded Kuper with Swazi citizenship in 1970.
Born to Lithuanian Jewish and Austrian Jewish parents in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, Kuper moved to South Africa after the death of her father.
She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and, afterwards, at the London School of Economics under Malinowski.
In 1978, Kuper published an extensive, official biography of Sobhuza II, King Sobhuza II, Ngwenyama and King of Swaziland.
