Herbert S. Lewis
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- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herbert S. Lewis is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught from 1963 to 1998. He has conducted extensive field research in Ethiopia and Israel and worked with Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin. Aside from publications based on ethnographic field research he has written theoretical works about political leadership and systems, ethnicity, cultural evolution. Since the late 1990s he has published extensively about the history of anthropology, much of it offering new insights into the work and thought of Franz Boas.
Herbert S. Lewis's Published Works
Published Works
- The Origins of the Galla and somali (1966) (111)
- The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences (1998) (102)
- Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Approach to Political Evolution [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (93)
- War: the anthropology of armed conflict and aggression (1969) (91)
- The Passion of Franz Boas (2001) (75)
- Nationalism and Self-Determination in the Horn of Africa (1984) (70)
- A Galla monarchy : Jimma Abba Jifar, Ethiopia, 1830-1932 (1966) (27)
- A Question of Agency (1996) (26)
- Neighbors, Friends, and Kinsmen: Principles of Social Organization among the Cushitic-Speaking Peoples of Ethiopia (1974) (19)
- HISTORICAL PROBLEMS IN ETHIOPIA AND THE HORN OF AFRICA * (1962) (18)
- Jimma Abba Jifar: An Oromo Monarchy Ethiopia 1830-1932 (2001) (18)
- History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology (1992) (14)
- 10. Warfare and the origin of the state: another formulation (1981) (13)
- Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora. (2003) (13)
- The Radical Transformation of Anthropology: History Seen through the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 1955–2005 (2009) (12)
- Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas (2005) (10)
- The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or: Can the Anthropologist Speak? (2007) (10)
- The Jew in London: A Study of Racial Character and Present-Day Conditions ; Being Two Essays Prepared for the Toynbee Trustees (2010) (10)
- In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology (2013) (9)
- 4. Anthropology, the Cold War, and Intellectual History (2008) (9)
- Anthropology and race, then and now : Commentary on K. Visweswaran, Race and the culture of anthropology (1998) (8)
- After the Eagles Landed: The Yemenites of Israel (1991) (8)
- A RECONSIDERATION OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE WESTERN GALLA (1964) (6)
- Was Anthropology the Child, the Tool, or the Handmaiden of Colonialism? (2017) (6)
- The Dictionary of Anthropology.; Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life.; A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. (1999) (6)
- Imagining Anthropology's History (2004) (5)
- A New Look at Actor‐Oriented Theory (1993) (5)
- The mystical life of Jesus (5)
- “The Relation of Darwin to Anthropology”: A Previously Unpublished Lecture by Franz Boas (1909) (2018) (4)
- Gada, Big Man, K'allu: Political Succession Among the Eastern Mech'a Oromo (1990) (4)
- Aspects of Oromo Political Culture (1994) (3)
- Prelude to East African History. Merrick Posnansky (1968) (3)
- Franz Boas and Friends? Not Really (2018) (3)
- 15 The Galla State of Jimma Abba Jifar (1978) (3)
- 'Kwanim Pa: The Making of the Uduk People: An Ethnographic Study of Survival in the Sudan-Ethiopian Borderlands (1981) (3)
- Yemenis in New York City: The Folklore of Ethnicity. SHALOM STAUB (1991) (3)
- The secret doctrines of Jesus (1981) (3)
- The Origins of African Kingdoms (1966) (3)
- Anthropology or cultural and critical theory (1999) (2)
- GENERAL: Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics. F. G. Bailey Pavilion Series, Social Anthropology (1970) (2)
- GENOMICS AND RACE (2005) (2)
- The Hamites of Africa (1963) (2)
- Anthropological Theory Today. Henrietta L. Moore (2001) (2)
- Disentangling disciplines (2014) (2)
- Proceedings of the First International Conference of Somali Studies (1995) (1)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. Richard K. P. Pankhurst (1969) (1)
- European Ethnicity in Wisconsin: an Exploratory Formulation. (1978) (1)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Africa (2014) (1)
- The Malinowskis' Letters (1996) (1)
- Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Pp. 228. (1994) (1)
- Jimma Abba Jifar : a despotic Galla Kingdom (1964) (1)
- Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology. Regna Darnell (2002) (1)
- African Political Systems: A Bibliographical Inventory of Anthropological Writings-II (1972) (1)
- Siegfried Pausewang, Peasants, Land and Society: a social history of land reform in Ethiopia , Munich: Ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, 1983, 238 pp. (1985) (1)
- Africans of Two Worlds: The Dinka in Afro-Arab Sudan (1981) (1)
- A Response to Sandy Toussaint's Commentary: “Honoring Our Predecessors: A Response to Herbert Lewis's Essay on 'The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences' ” (1999) (1)
- Political Anthropology: Kalahari Village Politics: An African Democracy. ADAM KUPER (1972) (1)
- Morton Klass (1927‐2000) (2002) (0)
- Postscript—1987 (2019) (0)
- Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp. (2022) (0)
- Unwrapping the sacred bundle: reflections on the disciplining of anthropology – Edibted by Daniel A. Segal & Sylvia J. Yanagisako (2006) (0)
- OTHER: The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control. Karl W. Deutsch (1964) (0)
- Adams, William Y. The Boasians: founding fathers and mothers of American anthropology. xi, 343 pp., illus., bibliogr. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. £24.95 (paper): Book reviews (2017) (0)
- Ethnographic Study (1973) (0)
- Contents List and Index (1966) (0)
- Donald L. Donham. History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology . Studies in Marxism and Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xi+242 pp. Bibliography, Index, Photographs. $49.50. Cloth. (1992) (0)
- I. M. Lewis, Nationalism and Self-determination in the Horn of Africa, London: Ithaca Press, 1983, 226 pp., £6. (1985) (0)
- African Political Systems: A Bibliographical Inventory of Anthropological Writings-I (1972) (0)
- A Pastoral Democracy.I. M. Lewis (1963) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY: Eastern African History. Daniel F. McCall, Norman R. Bennett, and Jeffrey Butler, eds (1970) (0)
- Been Coming Through Some Hard Times: Race, History, and Memory in Western Kentucky. Jack Glazier. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2015, 278 pp. $24.50, paper. ISBN 9781572339781. (2016) (0)
- (51) The Origins of African Kingdoms (1964) (0)
- The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914–1952. GUDRUN KRAMER (1993) (0)
- American Anthropology and the Cold War (2017) (0)
- General (1975) (0)
- Concerning Haberland's Comments on Review ofAltvölker Süd‐Äthiopiens: A Rejoinder (1963) (0)
- Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America (review) (2011) (0)
- The Exodus from Yemen (2019) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Altvölker Süd‐Äthiopiens. Ad. E. Jensen (1961) (0)
- Corrections to the Obituary of Morton Klass (2003) (0)
- A Forgotten Pioneer: (2021) (0)
- The East African High Commission and Other Regional Documents. Helen F. Conover (Compiler) (1961) (0)
- Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Stephen Sharot, Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Pp. 297. (1993) (0)
- Hempenstall, Peter . Truth's fool: Derek Freeman and the war over cultural anthropology. xiv, 321 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2018. £35.50 (cloth) (2021) (0)
- Political Change in Bechuanaland - Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change, 1795-1940 . I. Schapera. London School of Economics, Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 43. London: Athlone Press, for the University of London. New York: Humanities Press, Inc., 1970. (1971) (0)
- Lee V. Cassanelli, The Shaping of Somali Society: reconstructing the history of a pastoral people, 1600–1900 , Ethnohistory (series editors) Anthony F. C. Wallace and Lee V. Cassanelli, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982, 328 pp., $25.00. (1984) (0)
- On Haberland's Review of Lewis (1968) (0)
- S teward, J ulian H . (1902–72) (2018) (0)
- The Jews of Yemen (2019) (0)
- A Modern History of Somalia; Nation and State in the Horn of Africa. By I. M. Lewis. London: Longman 1980. ix, 279 p., index, maps, table. £4.50. (1981) (0)
- Anthropology Then and Now (2017) (0)
- Identity, Values, and Attitudes (2019) (0)
- Donald N. Levine, Interpreting Ethiopia: Observations of Five Decades (2017) (0)
- The Maintenance and Transmission of Ethnic Identity: A Study of Four Ethnic Groups of Religious Jews in Israel (review) (2012) (0)
- Edward Ullendorff, The Two Zions: Reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). Pp. 249. (1990) (0)
- Varisco, Daniel. Culture still matters: notes from the field. xxii, 174 pp., bibliogr. Leiden: Brill, 2018. $100.00 (cloth) (2020) (0)
- Jewish Ethnicity in Israel: Ideologies, Policies, and Outcomes (2017) (0)
- Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race. JackGlazier. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020. 258 pp. (2021) (0)
- Patterns Through Time: An Ethnographer's Quest and Journey. Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Sean Kingston Publishing, 2017. Ix+124 pp. (2019) (0)
- After the Eagles Landed (2019) (0)
- Simon D. Messing (2019) (0)
- The City of Kiryat Eliahu (2019) (0)
- The Addis Five (2019) (0)
- Religion and Social Life (2019) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology. Donald Donham and Wendy James, eds (1987) (0)
- The Origins of African Kingdoms [Abstract] (1964) (0)
- Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past? (2023) (0)
- The Yemenite Community of Kiryat Eliahu (2019) (0)
- Harold C. Fleming (2016) (0)
- Conclusions and Implications (2019) (0)
- CORRESPONDENCE: Roast Chicken (2000) (0)
- Searching for Boas in the Archives (2018) (0)
- Tha Cultural Definition of Political Response: Lineal Destiny among the Luo. DAVID PARK (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews:Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library. (2002) (0)
- The Yemenites Beyond Kiryat Eliahu (2019) (0)
- Authority nnd Change: A Study of the Kallu Institution Among the Macha Galla of Ethiopia. KARL ERIC KNUTSSON (1968) (0)
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