Isaac Schapera’s photographs magnificently capture everyday life among the Kgatla [chiefdom in the former Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana] at a period of great social change through a seemingly artless focus on artifacts and architecture, dress and deportment. In their introduction, Jean and John Comaroff – Schapera’s most outstanding successors – provide a scintillating and thought-provoking portrait of Schapera as ethnographer and photographer. This splendid volume will be a most valuable resource to anthropologists and historians and a source of illumination and enjoyment to readers interested in southern Africa.