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Bill Shack, 1923-2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Elizabeth Colson  and
Suzanne Calpestri
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Africa , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , November 2000 , pp. 683 - 685
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© Edinburgh University Press 2000

References

The Gurage: a people of the Ensete culture. London: International African Institute, 1966. This is to be reprinted in the IAI's series Classics in African Anthropology (Münster: Lit Verlag).Google Scholar
The Central Ethiopians: Amhara, Tigrina and related peoples, Part IV of the ‘North‐eastern Africa’ series in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa. London: International African Institute, 1974.Google Scholar
Gods and Heroes: oral traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia, translated and edited in collaboration with Habte‐Mariam Marcos. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.Google Scholar
Shack also edited, with Elliott Skinner, Strangers in African Societies (Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1979); and, with Percy Cohen, Politics in Leadership: a comparative perspective (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), in which were the essays presented at the LSE in 1975 in honour of Professor Isaac Schapera (who had taught Shack there).Google Scholar