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Bill Epstein

Anthropology

#533

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#748

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Social Anthropology

#40

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#50

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Anthropology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Arnold Leonard Epstein, known as Bill Epstein , was a British social anthropologist. A member of the "Manchester School", he was known for his research on ethnicity and identity, particularly his book Ethos and Identity , and for his ethnographic work in Central Africa and New Britain. He was a professor at the Australian National University and Sussex University , as well as the vice president of the Royal Anthropological Institute . He was married to T. Scarlett Epstein and had two daughters.

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Bill Epstein's Published Works

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Politics in an Urban African Community (1959) (303)
The Network and Urban Social Organization (1961) (211)
The craft of social anthropology (1968) (118)
Ethos and Identity: Three Studies in Ethnicity (1978) (108)
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1967) (86)
Urbanization and kinship : the domestic domain on the copperbelt of Zambia, 1950-1956 (1983) (64)
Occupational Prestige and Social Status among Urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia (1959) (62)
Matupit: Land, Politics, and Change among the Tolai of New Britain (1969) (52)
The Language of the Emotions (1992) (48)
The Experience of Shame in Melanesia: an essay in the anthropology of Affect (1984) (27)
Contention and dispute : aspects of law and social control in Melanesia (1974) (22)
Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Papers (1992) (21)
Linguistic Innovation and Culture on the Copperbelt, Northern Rhodesia (1959) (20)
In the Midst of Life: Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai (1992) (20)
Urbanisation and Kinship: The Domestic Domain on the Copperbelt of Zambia 1950-1956 (1984) (16)
Matupit revisited : social change, local organization and the sense of place (1988) (11)
The administration of justice and the urban African : a study of urban native courts in Northern Rhodesia (1953) (11)
The politics of dependence : Papua New Guinea 1968 (1973) (10)
The Reasonable Man Revisited: Some Problems in the Anthropology of Law (1973) (10)
Matupit: Land, Politics and Change Among the Tolai of New Britain. (1970) (10)
Privacy and the boundaries of the self: reflections on some Tolai data (1994) (8)
Juridical techniques and the judicial process : a study in African customary law (1954) (8)
THE ECONOMY OF MODERN MATUPIT1 (1963) (8)
Some Aspects of the Conflict of Law and Urban Courts in Northern Rhodesia (1951) (8)
Tolai sorcery and change. (1999) (8)
The Role of African Courts in Urban Communities of the Northern Rhodesia Copperbelt (1953) (7)
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AMONG THE TOLAP1 (1971) (7)
The Spirit and the Drum: A Memoir of Africa. EDITH TURNER (1988) (7)
VARIATION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: LOCAL ORGANIZATION ON THE ISLAND OF MATUPIT, NEW BRITAIN (1964) (5)
Occupational Prestige on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain (1967) (5)
Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Essays. (1993) (5)
Autonomy and identity: Aspects of political development on the Gazelle Peninsula (1970) (4)
Strange Encounters: Dreams and Nightmares of High School Students in Papua New Guinea1 (1998) (4)
Divorce Law and the Stability of Marriage Among the Lunda of Kazembe (1954) (4)
Changing Patterns of Tolai Residence and Marital Choice (1991) (4)
The Paranoid Ethos in Melanesia : The case of theTolai (2000) (3)
Adoption among the Tolai (1994) (3)
Tambu : the Shell-Money of the Tolai (2002) (2)
The Millennium and the Self: Jehovah's Witnesses on the Copperbelt in the 1950's (1986) (2)
Tribal Government (1957) (2)
Military Organization and the Pre-Colonial Policy of the Bemba of Zambia (1975) (1)
Regression and Progress in the Study of Race and Ethnicity (1980) (0)
Matupit: Land, Politics, and Change Among the Tolai of New Britain. (1970) (0)
The MAGIC/L programming language (1986) (0)
Tolai sorcery and change: 984 (1999) (0)
Social Facts and Fabrications: “Customary” Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880–1980. SALLY FALK MOORE (1987) (0)

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