Monica Wilson, née Hunter (3 January 1908 – 26 October 1982) was a South African anthropologist, who was professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
[3][4] Monica Hunter was born to missionary parents in Lovedale in the Cape Colony, speaking Xhosa from childhood.
Her thesis, the fieldwork for which was undertaken with the Pondo in the Eastern Cape between 1931 and 1933, was presented in the monograph Reaction to Conquest.
[5] Marrying Godfrey Wilson in 1935, the pair undertook fieldwork with the Nyakyusa in Tanzania between 1935 and 1938.
[3] She died in Hogsback, Cape Province at her home, which is now a research centre for the University of Fort Hare.