Sheila S Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 86273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila S Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila S |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Warri Across the Atlantic: Another Triangular Trade Benin, West Africa; Antigua, Caribbean; Harlem, USA
Milestones and Arrows: A Cultural Anthropologist Discovers the Global African Diaspora
Africanity Vs Blackness Race, Class And Culture In Brazil
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSheila WalkerSheila S. Walker is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas. She is the editor of African Roots/American Cultures: Africa In The Creation Of The Americas, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) and is director of the African Diaspora Education Projectin Washington, DC
New Firms, Small Firms and Dead Firms: Spatial Patterns and Determinants in the United Kingdom
KEEBLE D. and WALKER S. (1994) New firms, small firms and dead firms: spatial patterns and determinants in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 28, 411–427. The paper analyses marked county-level spatial variations in new enterprise formation, growth in numbers of small businesses, and business failures in the UK 1980–90 as measured by VAT business registration and deregistration statistics. Multivariate econometric models for different periods and s…
Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans
Sheila S. Walker, Jennifer Rasamimanana, Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 3-23
The Virtues of Positive Ethnocentrism: Some Reflections of an Afrocentric Anthropologist
A Choreography of the Universe: The Afro-Brazilian Candomble as a Microcosm of Yoruba Spiritual Geography
The Candomble, the basis of Bahian spiritual and cultural life, is based on Yoruba religion recreated in Brazil. Nineteenth-century civil wars made the Yoruba in West Africa especially vulnerable to enslavement, and the particularisms of the Yoruba religious presence reflects the results. The Orishas, the spiritual beings of the Yoruba, were associated with natural features and localized human groups in Africa. In Brazil they were grouped togethe…
Everyday and Esoteric Reality in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé
Redefining What Wisdom is and Who Has It
The Religious Revolution in the Ivory Coast: The Prophet Harris and the Harrist Church
Walker's impressive study is the first to link Harris's background to the nature of his teachings and to discuss the dynamics of his movement's development. Harris not only articulated the confusion and desires of his followers but also created new aspirations by helping them see what they could achieve in their own society and in their relations with Europeans. Harris is the only evangelist in the history of the African continent to bring such n…
African Christianity. Patterns of Religious Continuity
African Christianity: Patterns of Religious Continuity
Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes. The Harrist Church, the Witchcraft Complex and Social Change in the Ivory Coast
Sheila S. Walker, Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes. The Harrist Church, the Witchcraft Complex and Social Change in the Ivory Coast, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 11, Fasc. 2 (1980), pp. 106-123
African Gods in the Americas: The Black Religious Continuum
Our normal waking consciousness... is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirety different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptat…
Black Anthropology, Part I
Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes
African Christianity: Patterns of Religious Continuity
Witchcraft and Healing in an African Christian Church
A Challenge to Anthropology and Education
The History of an African Kingdom in Symbols
Benjamin C. Ray, African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community
Ethnology: The Assimilation of Cuban Exiles: The Role of Community and Class. Eleanor Meyer Rogg
The Prophet Harris
Ceremonial Spirit Possession in Africa and Afro-America. Forms, Meanings and Functional Significance for Individuals and Social Groups
Reports From Standing Committees
New Firms, Small Firms and Dead Firms: Spatial Patterns and Determinants in the United Kingdom
KEEBLE D. and WALKER S. (1994) New firms, small firms and dead firms: spatial patterns and determinants in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 28, 411–427. The paper analyses marked county-level spatial variations in new enterprise formation, growth in numbers of small businesses, and business failures in the UK 1980–90 as measured by VAT business registration and deregistration statistics. Multivariate econometric models for different periods and s…
Witchcraft and Healing in an African Christian Church
Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans
Sheila S. Walker, Jennifer Rasamimanana, Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 3-23
A Challenge to Anthropology and Education
Everyday and Esoteric Reality in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé
Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes. The Harrist Church, the Witchcraft Complex and Social Change in the Ivory Coast
Sheila S. Walker, Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes. The Harrist Church, the Witchcraft Complex and Social Change in the Ivory Coast, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 11, Fasc. 2 (1980), pp. 106-123
Black Anthropology, Part I
Ambivalence of US race feeling: The Black‐Jewish paradox
Ceremonial Spirit Possession in Africa and Afro-America. Forms, Meanings and Functional Significance for Individuals and Social Groups
Reports From Standing Committees
The Prophet Harris
The History of an African Kingdom in Symbols
Benjamin C. Ray, African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community
Ethnology: The Assimilation of Cuban Exiles: The Role of Community and Class. Eleanor Meyer Rogg
A Challenge to Anthropology and Education
Witchcraft and Healing in an African Christian Church
Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes. The Harrist Church, the Witchcraft Complex and Social Change in the Ivory Coast
Sheila S. Walker, Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes. The Harrist Church, the Witchcraft Complex and Social Change in the Ivory Coast, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 11, Fasc. 2 (1980), pp. 106-123
African Gods in the Americas: The Black Religious Continuum
Our normal waking consciousness... is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirety different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptat…
Black Anthropology, Part I
Young Men, Old Men, and Devils in Aeroplanes
African Christianity: Patterns of Religious Continuity
African Christianity. Patterns of Religious Continuity
African Christianity: Patterns of Religious Continuity
The Religious Revolution in the Ivory Coast: The Prophet Harris and the Harrist Church
Walker's impressive study is the first to link Harris's background to the nature of his teachings and to discuss the dynamics of his movement's development. Harris not only articulated the confusion and desires of his followers but also created new aspirations by helping them see what they could achieve in their own society and in their relations with Europeans. Harris is the only evangelist in the history of the African continent to bring such n…
Redefining What Wisdom is and Who Has It
Everyday and Esoteric Reality in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé
The Virtues of Positive Ethnocentrism: Some Reflections of an Afrocentric Anthropologist
A Choreography of the Universe: The Afro-Brazilian Candomble as a Microcosm of Yoruba Spiritual Geography
The Candomble, the basis of Bahian spiritual and cultural life, is based on Yoruba religion recreated in Brazil. Nineteenth-century civil wars made the Yoruba in West Africa especially vulnerable to enslavement, and the particularisms of the Yoruba religious presence reflects the results. The Orishas, the spiritual beings of the Yoruba, were associated with natural features and localized human groups in Africa. In Brazil they were grouped togethe…
Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans
Sheila S. Walker, Jennifer Rasamimanana, Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 3-23
New Firms, Small Firms and Dead Firms: Spatial Patterns and Determinants in the United Kingdom
KEEBLE D. and WALKER S. (1994) New firms, small firms and dead firms: spatial patterns and determinants in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 28, 411–427. The paper analyses marked county-level spatial variations in new enterprise formation, growth in numbers of small businesses, and business failures in the UK 1980–90 as measured by VAT business registration and deregistration statistics. Multivariate econometric models for different periods and s…
Africanity Vs Blackness Race, Class And Culture In Brazil
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSheila WalkerSheila S. Walker is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas. She is the editor of African Roots/American Cultures: Africa In The Creation Of The Americas, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) and is director of the African Diaspora Education Projectin Washington, DC
Milestones and Arrows: A Cultural Anthropologist Discovers the Global African Diaspora
Sociology (20 works) · History (18 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · History (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History of religions (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works)