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Elliott P. Skinner

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
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Bachelors Anthropology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Elliott Percival Skinner was an American anthropologist and United States Ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta. Background Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in a family with four siblings and Barbadian ancestry on his father's side, Skinner came to the United States in 1943. He supported American values, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1944 and fought in World War II in France, which later allowed him to obtain citizenship. Skinner earned a bachelor's degree from New York University in 1951. He then attended Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1955. He was rejected for a PhD at Northwestern by Melville J. Herskovits who believed that "black scholars" could not study Africa objectively. His PhD thesis, working with Morton Fried, was "Ethnic Interaction in a British Guiana Rural Community: A Study in Secondary Acculturation and Group Dynamics." but his interests soon shifted back to Africa.

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Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture.@@@Ethiopia: A New Political History. (1965) (251)
Strangers in African Societies (1981) (88)
Strangers in West African Societies (1963) (81)
African Urban Life: The Transformation Of Ouagadougou (1975) (55)
The Mossi of the Upper Volta : the political development of a Sudanese people (1964) (51)
Labour Migration and its Relationship to Socio-Cultural Change in Mossi Society (1960) (41)
The Mossi of Burkina Faso: Chiefs, Politicians and Soldiers (1989) (33)
African Political Cultures and the Problems of Government (1998) (26)
The ‘Paradox’ of Rural Leadership: A Comment (1968) (21)
Christianity and Islam among the Mossi (1958) (20)
African Americans and U.S. Policy Toward Africa, 1850-1924: In Defense of Black Nationality (1992) (20)
Peoples and Cultures of Africa (1975) (19)
Competition Within Ethnic Systems in Africa (1975) (17)
Sankara and the Burkinabé Revolution: Charisma and Power, Local and External Dimensions (1988) (17)
Intergenerational conflict among the Mossi: father and son (1961) (15)
Trade And Market Among The Mossi People (1962) (13)
Political Conflict ana Revolution in an African Town (1972) (13)
African Studies, 1955-1975: An Afro-American Perspective (1976) (9)
The Mossi 'Pogsioure' (1960) (7)
The Mossi of the Upper Volta: The Political Development of a Sudanese People (1964) (7)
CHILD SOLDIERS IN AFRICA: A DISASTER FOR FUTURE FAMILIES (2016) (6)
Peoples and Cultures of Africa: An Anthropological Reader (1973) (6)
Life With the Baoule (1975) (6)
A Glorious Age in Africa: The Story of Three Great African Empires (1967) (6)
Roots of Time: A Portrait of African Life and Culture (1974) (5)
The Effect of Co-residence of Sisters'Sons on African Corporate Patrilineal Descent Groups (1964) (5)
Transformation and resiliency in Africa : as seen by Afro-American scholars (1983) (4)
Transformation and Resiliency in Africa (1986) (4)
28. The Mossi Pogsioure (1960) (4)
Transcending Traditions: African, African-American and African Diaspora Studies in the 21st Century—The Past Must Be The Prologue (2000) (4)
The Mossi and Traditional Sudanese History (1958) (3)
Essay On The Manners And Customs Of The Mossi People In The Western Sudan (3)
Ethnic interaction in a British Guiana rural community : a study in secondary acculturation and group dynamics (1955) (3)
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (2)
Traditional And Modern Patterns Of Succession To Political Office Among The Mossi Of The Voltaic Republic (1960) (2)
Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World. Eileen McCarty‐Arnolds, David R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepeña, eds (1995) (2)
ETHNOLOGY: African Homicide and Suicide. Paul Bohannan (1960) (1)
THE DIFFUSION OF ISLAM IN AN AFRICAN SOCIETY (1962) (1)
Policy Toward Africa For the 1970s (1970) (1)
Urbanization in Francophone Africa (1986) (1)
The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: (2007) (1)
Afro-Americans, Africa, and America (1980) (1)
GROUP DYNAMICS AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN BRITISH GUIANA (2006) (1)
SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MOSSI PEOPLE* (1957) (1)
African Governance and Political Cultures. (2000) (1)
The Dangers of American Support of Apartheid (1985) (0)
Women and the State in West Africa (1987) (0)
African States and Israel: Relations in a World of Crises (1975) (0)
GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION (1995) (0)
Traditional and Modern Patterns of Succession to Political Office (1960) (0)
Problems and Prospects in Contemporary Africa (1972) (0)
COUNCIL FOR GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY: (formerly General Anthropology Division) (1995) (0)
Distinguished Service Award for Vidyarthi (1984) (0)
Development and Change: The African Genius: An Introduction to African Cultural and Social History. BASIL DAVIDSON (1973) (0)
COUNCIL FOR GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1996) (0)
Thomas Sankara: A Retrospective (1988) (0)
Corporations, Customs, and Social Change: A Review Article (1976) (0)
Women and the Early State in West Africa (1989) (0)
African Governance and Political Cultures (2000) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: British Guiana. Raymond T. Smith (1964) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: White Man: A Study of the Attitudes of Africans to Europeans in Ghana Before Independence. Gustav Jahoda (1962) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Official Publications of French West Africa 1946–1958: A Guide. Helen F. Conover (1960) (0)
Rose Simmonds Memorial Fund (1954) (0)
Applied Anthropology:Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution. Riall W. Nolan (1988) (0)
General Anthropology Divison (1995) (0)
Ethnology: The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo 1880–1892. Jan Vansina (1976) (0)
Africa for the Young (1975) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Economic Man in Africa. William O. Jones (1961) (0)
Significant New Series Inaugurated (1965) (0)

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