Donald R Hill

Biographic Data

ID198430
NAMEDonald R Hill
GIVEN NAMESDonald R
FAMILY NAMEHill
SIGNATUREHILL D R
AFFILIATIONSSUNY Oneonta
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Islamic Science and Engineering

    Donald R HillBOOKIslamic Science and Engineering2019

    This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of the Muslim scientific achievement in the period 750-1500. It describes how Muslim scientists and engineers contributed enormously to the technology of medieval Europe.

  • Islamic Science and Engineering

    Donald R HillBOOKIslamic Science and Engineering2019

  • Sun, Sea, and Sound

    Open AccessDonald R HillARTICLENew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…2017

  • Caribbean Voyage

    Gage Averill, Alan Lomax et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2003

  • Caribbean Voyage. The 1962 Field Recordings

    Dominique Cyrille, Alan Lomax et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

  • Lionel Belasco

    Dominique Cyrille, Donald R Hill et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

  • Wake the Town and Tell the People

    Open AccessDonald R Hill, Donald HillARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2001Cited by: 26

    Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica. Norman C. Stolzoff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. xi 298 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index

  • The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou

    Donald R Hill, Lorna McdanielARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1999

    The Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 129 of the ceremonial song texts and dances that call and entertain the ancestors who are central to Carriacou religious experience. McDaniel, who lived in Carriacou at the time of the 1983 invasion of Grenada, frequently observed Big Drum dances and interviewed many old heads (wise people) for this book. She concludes it with an analysis…

  • Happy in the Service of the Lord

    Donald R HillARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1999

  • West African and Haitian Influences on the Ritual and Popular Music of Carriacou, Trinidad, and Cuba

    Donald R HillARTICLEBlack Music Research Journal1998Cited by: 1References: 2

    Donald R. Hill, West African and Haitian Influences on the Ritual and Popular Music of Carriacou, Trinidad, and Cuba, Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1/2 (Spring - Autumn, 1998), pp. 183-201

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    Sami Hamarneh, Sami K Hamarneh et al.CHAPTEREncyclopaedia of the History of…1997

  • Haitian Song

    Gage Averill, Karen Kramer et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1997

  • Calypso Calaloo

    Jocelyne Guilbault, Donald R HillARTICLEEthnomusicology1996

    Mathilda, she take me money and run Venezuela, may sound familiar, but how about From a scandal and hideous bacchanal/Today we got a glorious carnival, or anywhere you go you must meet people sad/They search for employment, none can be had. Classic calypso, one of greatest creations of Caribbean culture, is more than frivolous music played for tourists in pink hotels overlooking tropical beaches. Much traditional calypso is also social commentary…

  • "The Book "Kitāb al-Hiyal'' of Banū Mūsā bin Shākir

    Donald R HillARTICLEIsis1992

  • Arabic Mechanical Engineering

    Open AccessDonald R Hill, Donald HillARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy1991

    The first and more important section of this article lists all the known treatises in Arabic on Fine Technology – water-clocks, automata, pumps, trick vessels, fountains, etc. The ideas, techniques and components in these treatises are of great importance in the history of machine technology. For each treatise information is given on the provenance of MSS, editions in Arabic and translations, paraphrases or commentaries in modern European languag…

  • The ambiguity of reason

    Donald R HillARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1991References: 6

    Levine, Donald N. The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 248 pp. including figures, appendix, references, and index. $25.00 cloth. Overing, Joanna, ed. Reason and Morality. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985. viii + 277 pp. including figures, chapter references and notes, name indèx, and subject index. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Sperber, Dan. On Anthropological Knowled…

  • Belief and ritual

    Donald R HillARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1991References: 5

    Brown, Michael F. Tsewa's Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. No front matter, 220 pp. including appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 cloth. Elworthy, Frederick Thomas. The Evil Eye: An Account of This Ancient and Widespread Superstition. New York: The Julian Press, 1986. xi + 471 pp. including illustrations and index. $7.95 paper. Hurley, J. Finley. Sorcery. Bost…

  • Islamicate Celestial Globes

    Donald R Hill, Emilie Savage-Smith et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

  • Islamicate Celestial Globes

    Donald R HillARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    670 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE enon analogous to the new history of science movement in Latin America) gives great hope for an explosive expansion of our knowl­ edge of this area. Thomas F. Glick Dr. Glick is the author of Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages and numerous essays on the transmission of techniques from the Islamic to the Hispanic worlds. Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction, and Use. By …

  • Islamic Technology

    Thomas F Glick, Ahmad Y Al-Hassan et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    Introduction 2. Mechanical engineering 3. Civil engineering 4. Military technology 5. Ships and navigation 6. Chemical technology 7. Textiles, paper and leather 8. Agriculture and food technology 9. Mining and metallurgy 10. Engineers and artisans 11. Epilogue Selected bibliography Credits and permissions Index

  • The Black Saturnalia

    Donald R Hill, Robert DirksARTICLEEthnohistory1988Cited by: 1

  • Islamic Fine Technology and Its Influence on the Development of European Horology

    Donald R HillARTICLEAl-Abhath1987

  • Arabic Water-Clocks

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smith et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1984

  • The Impact of Migration on the Metropolitan and Folk Society of Carriacou, Grenada

    Jane C Beck, Donald R HillARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1981Cited by: 4

  • The Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitab al Hiyal)

    Alex Keller, Banu Musa Bin Shakir et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1980