# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isaac-schapera
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:16.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isaac-schapera"
name: "Isaac Schapera"
slug: "isaac-schapera"
description: "Isaac Schapera FBA FRAI was a British social anthropologist at the London School of Economics specialising in South Africa. He was notable for his contributions of ethnographic and typological studies of the indigenous peoples of Botswana and South Africa. Additionally, he was one of the founders of the group that would develop British social anthropology."
tagline: "British anthropologist (1905-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isaac_Schapera%2C_c1950s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-06-23"
deathDate: "2003-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.279050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schapera"
    title: "Isaac Schapera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schapera"
    title: "Isaac Schapera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ايزاك شاپيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schapera"
    title: "Isaac Schapera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schapera"
    title: "Isaac Schapera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schapera"
    title: "Isaac Schapera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump