William A Shack
Biographic Data
| ID | 81645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Shack |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Shack |
| SIGNATURE | SHACK W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History 1570-1860. Mohammed Hassen
The Gurague and Their Culture
Troubled lands, troubled people
Kuper, Adam. South Africa and the Anthropologist. New York: Rout‐ledge, 1987. viii + 216 pp. including notes to chapters and index. $59.95 cloth. Leslau, Wolf, ed. Falasha Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xiii + 222 pp. including index, notes and glossary. $10.95 paper
Black Folk Here and There: An Essay in History and Anthropology. ST. CLAIR DRAKE
The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology
In Search of Cool Ground. 1985
Belief and Experience Among the Sidamo: A Case Study Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge. Jan Brøgger
The Kula: A Bronislaw Malinowski Centennial Exhibition
Strangers in African Societies
Warfare Among East African Herders
Politics in Leadership: A Comparative Perspective
Strangers in African societies
Collective Oath Compurgation in Anglo-Saxon England and African states
Social historians and historians of jurisprudence have, on occasion, drawn attention to the close resemblances between Anglo-Saxon society at the time when it is said to have been dominated by kinship relationships and the large kingdom states in Africa. The truth of the matter is not so easily come by, however, since the content of pre-medieval social relationships linking persons of different station was inadequately recorded by early writers. …
God and Heroes. Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia Translated and Edited with an Introduction and Notes
The Central Ethiopians, Amhara, Tigrinia and Related People
Oral Literature from Ethiopia
Gods and Heroes: Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia
Occupational prestige, status, and social change in modern Ethiopia
IntroductionTowns and cities throughout modern Africa have witnessed the emergence of prestige and status groups, principally as consequence of newly developing wage earning opportunities for educated Africans. Like African townsmen almost everywhere, urban Ethiopians now engage in, or aspire to occupations as skilled specialists which carry altogether new social prestige. Old values associated with traditional labour undertakings have undergone …
Ethiopia and Afro-Americans: Some Historical Notes, 1920-1970
TISTORICAL RELATIONS between Ethiopia and Afro-Americans seldom have been a subject of topical interest in the writings of scholars concerned with the question of the identity with Africa fostered by African descendants in the New World. For obvious reasons that require no lengthy explanation, the common aim in the writings of such scholars has been to trace the cultural and emotional source of Afro-Americans' identi
Land and man in highland Ethiopia
Allan Hoben. Land Tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. $9.50
Linguistics: Traité de langue amharique (Abyssinie). Marcel Cohen
Ethnology: The Abyssinians. David Buxton
Hunger, Anxiety, and Ritual: Deprivation and Spirit Possession Among the Gurage of Ethiopia
Prehistory. Reconstructing African Culture History. Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett
The Mäsqal-Pole: Religious Conflict and Social Change in Gurageland
Opening ParagraphIn An Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand, Professor Gluckman argued that in situations of conflict, pre-existing groups do not divide neatly into opposing halves, but that groups realign themselves according to the values, motives, and interests governing them at a given time; and that groups who are opposed when facing one situation may find themselves aligned when the nature of the situation differs. Similar stud…
Strangers in African societies
Warfare Among East African Herders
Hunger, Anxiety, and Ritual: Deprivation and Spirit Possession Among the Gurage of Ethiopia
Notes on Occupational Castes Among the Gurage of South-West Ethiopia
The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology
Strangers in African Societies
Some Aspects of Ecology and Social Structure in the Ensete Complex in South-West Ethiopia
THE RELATIONSHIP between ecological adaptations and forms of social grouping in Africa is a recurrent problem of anthropological interest. Even so, studies of population responses to ecological, socio-political and historical circumstances, for the most part, concern tribal groups outside the Horn of Africa (Herskovits I926; Forde I937, I953; Richards I 939; Huntingford I 953; Gulliver I 955; Stenning I 959; Jones I 96 I). Hence, ecological data …
The Mäsqal-Pole: Religious Conflict and Social Change in Gurageland
Opening ParagraphIn An Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand, Professor Gluckman argued that in situations of conflict, pre-existing groups do not divide neatly into opposing halves, but that groups realign themselves according to the values, motives, and interests governing them at a given time; and that groups who are opposed when facing one situation may find themselves aligned when the nature of the situation differs. Similar stud…
The Gurage: A People of the Ensete Culture
Politics in Leadership: A Comparative Perspective
Religious Ideas and Social Action in Gurage Bond-Friendship
Opening ParagraphInstitutions of bond-friendship as a form of voluntary association exist in many societies and, when viewed cross-tribally, they show considerable variation both in form and function.1 Even so, variations in the order of bond-friendship associations seem related to a common theme: namely, that there is an exchange of goods and/or services between parties to a ritual covenant that is reinforced by supernatural sanctions; and that …
The Kula: A Bronislaw Malinowski Centennial Exhibition
Collective Oath Compurgation in Anglo-Saxon England and African states
Social historians and historians of jurisprudence have, on occasion, drawn attention to the close resemblances between Anglo-Saxon society at the time when it is said to have been dominated by kinship relationships and the large kingdom states in Africa. The truth of the matter is not so easily come by, however, since the content of pre-medieval social relationships linking persons of different station was inadequately recorded by early writers. …
Occupational prestige, status, and social change in modern Ethiopia
IntroductionTowns and cities throughout modern Africa have witnessed the emergence of prestige and status groups, principally as consequence of newly developing wage earning opportunities for educated Africans. Like African townsmen almost everywhere, urban Ethiopians now engage in, or aspire to occupations as skilled specialists which carry altogether new social prestige. Old values associated with traditional labour undertakings have undergone …
Organization and Problems of Education in Ethiopia
Organization and Problems of Education in Ethiopia
Black Muslims: A Nativistic Religious Movement Among Negro Americans
Some Aspects of Ecology and Social Structure in the Ensete Complex in South-West Ethiopia
THE RELATIONSHIP between ecological adaptations and forms of social grouping in Africa is a recurrent problem of anthropological interest. Even so, studies of population responses to ecological, socio-political and historical circumstances, for the most part, concern tribal groups outside the Horn of Africa (Herskovits I926; Forde I937, I953; Richards I 939; Huntingford I 953; Gulliver I 955; Stenning I 959; Jones I 96 I). Hence, ecological data …
Religious Ideas and Social Action in Gurage Bond-Friendship
Opening ParagraphInstitutions of bond-friendship as a form of voluntary association exist in many societies and, when viewed cross-tribally, they show considerable variation both in form and function.1 Even so, variations in the order of bond-friendship associations seem related to a common theme: namely, that there is an exchange of goods and/or services between parties to a ritual covenant that is reinforced by supernatural sanctions; and that …
Notes on Occupational Castes Among the Gurage of South-West Ethiopia
The Gurage: A People of the Ensete Culture
Tribe and Class in Monrovia . Merran Fraenkel
Ethnology and Ethnohistory: Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background: I. Harari, Wolf Leslau
The Mäsqal-Pole: Religious Conflict and Social Change in Gurageland
Opening ParagraphIn An Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand, Professor Gluckman argued that in situations of conflict, pre-existing groups do not divide neatly into opposing halves, but that groups realign themselves according to the values, motives, and interests governing them at a given time; and that groups who are opposed when facing one situation may find themselves aligned when the nature of the situation differs. Similar stud…
Prehistory. Reconstructing African Culture History. Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett
Hunger, Anxiety, and Ritual: Deprivation and Spirit Possession Among the Gurage of Ethiopia
Ethnology: The Abyssinians. David Buxton
Ethiopia and Afro-Americans: Some Historical Notes, 1920-1970
TISTORICAL RELATIONS between Ethiopia and Afro-Americans seldom have been a subject of topical interest in the writings of scholars concerned with the question of the identity with Africa fostered by African descendants in the New World. For obvious reasons that require no lengthy explanation, the common aim in the writings of such scholars has been to trace the cultural and emotional source of Afro-Americans' identi
Land and man in highland Ethiopia
Allan Hoben. Land Tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. $9.50
Linguistics: Traité de langue amharique (Abyssinie). Marcel Cohen
Gods and Heroes: Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia
Occupational prestige, status, and social change in modern Ethiopia
IntroductionTowns and cities throughout modern Africa have witnessed the emergence of prestige and status groups, principally as consequence of newly developing wage earning opportunities for educated Africans. Like African townsmen almost everywhere, urban Ethiopians now engage in, or aspire to occupations as skilled specialists which carry altogether new social prestige. Old values associated with traditional labour undertakings have undergone …
Oral Literature from Ethiopia
God and Heroes. Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia Translated and Edited with an Introduction and Notes
The Central Ethiopians, Amhara, Tigrinia and Related People
Strangers in African societies
Collective Oath Compurgation in Anglo-Saxon England and African states
Social historians and historians of jurisprudence have, on occasion, drawn attention to the close resemblances between Anglo-Saxon society at the time when it is said to have been dominated by kinship relationships and the large kingdom states in Africa. The truth of the matter is not so easily come by, however, since the content of pre-medieval social relationships linking persons of different station was inadequately recorded by early writers. …
Warfare Among East African Herders
Politics in Leadership: A Comparative Perspective
Strangers in African Societies
Sociology (21 works) · History (19 works) · African history and culture analysis (18 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Citation (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)