I. Murphy Lewis

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Ecstatic Religion: An Anthropological Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism (1971) (384)
Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession (1971) (343)
A Pastoral Democracy: A study of pastoralism and politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa (1997) (264)
A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa (1955) (232)
Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society (1994) (225)
A Pastoral Democracy (1961) (205)
Social anthropology in perspective (1976) (180)
Religion in context : cults and charisma (1988) (143)
Islam in East Africa (1966) (130)
Spirit Possession and Deprivation Cults (1966) (116)
A Modern History of Somalia; Nation and State in the Horn of Africa (1981) (112)
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History, Society (2008) (94)
The State and Rural Transformation in Northern Somalia, 1884-1986 (1989) (85)
Acquiring Culture: Cross-cultural Studies in Child Development (1988) (82)
Islam in Tropical Africa (1980) (78)
Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho (1998) (75)
Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology (1993) (74)
Somali poetry : an introduction (1966) (71)
The Ogaden and the Fragility of Somali Segmentary Nationalism (1989) (70)
Nationalism and Self-Determination in the Horn of Africa (1984) (70)
The New Interventionism, 1991–1994: Somalia (1996) (70)
The Tijaniyya: A Sufi Order in the Modern World (1965) (67)
Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan-Based Society (1998) (63)
Visible and Invisible Differences: The Somali Paradox (2004) (60)
Doing Violence to Ethnography: A Response to Catherine Besteman's "Representing Violence and 'Othering' Somalia" (1998) (58)
Social Anthropology in Perspective: The Relevance of Social Anthropology (1986) (53)
Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and Beyond (1991) (50)
History and Social Anthropology (1970) (50)
The Problem of the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (1963) (43)
The Politics of the 1969 Somali Coup (1972) (41)
Somali Nationalism: International Politics and the Drive for Unity in the Horn of Africa (1964) (41)
The Modern History of Somaliland: From Nation to State (1966) (40)
The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600- (1985) (39)
Understanding Somalia: Guide to Culture, History, and Social Institutions (1993) (37)
Misunderstanding the Somali Crisis (1993) (37)
The Somali Conquest of the Horn of Africa (1960) (36)
Sufism In Somaliland: A Study In Tribal Islam (1955) (35)
Making Peace in Somaliland (1997) (32)
Modern Political Movements in Somaliland. II (1958) (32)
Marriage and the Family in Northern Somaliland (1963) (31)
Pan-Africanism and Pan-Somalism (1963) (30)
Force and Fission in Northern Somali Lineage Structure (1961) (28)
Making and Breaking States in Africa: The Somali Experience (2010) (28)
Sufism in Someliland: A Study in Tribal Islam–II (1955) (25)
Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion (1999) (23)
The Heroic Recitations of the Bahima of Ankole (1964) (22)
Historical Aspects of Genealogies in Northern Somali Social Structure (1962) (21)
Trance, Possession, Shamanism and Sex (2003) (20)
Symbols and Sentiments: Cross-cultural Studies in Symbolism (1977) (19)
Modern history of the Somali: Revised, updated and expanded (2002) (16)
Clanship and Contract in Northern Somaliland (1959) (15)
Shamanism, History and the State (1996) (14)
What is a Shaman (1981) (13)
Religion in context (1986) (13)
Making history in Somalia: humanitarian intervention in a stateless society (1997) (12)
The Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan. (1969) (12)
From Nomadism to Cultivation. The Expansion of Political Solidarity in Southern Somalia (1969) (12)
THE SPIDER AND THE PANGOLIN (1991) (12)
Dualism In Somali Notions Of Power (1963) (11)
Somali culture, history, and social institutions: An introductory guide to the Somali Democratic Republic (1981) (10)
252. A Preliminary Investigation of the Blood Groups of the Sab Bondsmen of Northern Somaliland (1958) (10)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOMALI DISPUTE (1967) (10)
A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose (1955) (10)
The peoples and cultures of Ethiopia (1976) (10)
Voice and power : the culture of language in North-East Africa : essays in honour of B. W. Andrzejewski (1996) (10)
Islam in the Middle East: a living tradition (2009) (9)
The Past and the Present in Islam: the Case of African "Survivals" (1983) (9)
The Somali Peninsula: A New Light on Imperial Motives (1962) (9)
132. The So-Called 'Galla Graves' of Northern Somaliland (1961) (9)
The Shaman's Quest in Africa (1997) (8)
Spirit Possession and Biological Reductionism: A Rejoinder to Kehoe and Giletti (1983) (8)
Modern Political Movements in Somaliland, (1958) (7)
An Introduction to Evans-Pritchard (1992) (7)
The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History, from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (2000) (7)
A Modern History of the Somali (2002) (7)
Modern Political Movements in Somaliland. Part One (1958) (7)
The Gadabuursi Somali Script (1958) (7)
South of North: Shamanism in Africa: A Neglected Theme (1989) (6)
A Modern History of Somalia (2019) (5)
Social and Cultural Anthropology in Perspective: Their Relevance in the Modern World (1986) (5)
The Atlas of mankind (1982) (4)
Recycling Somalia from the Scrap Merchants of Mogadishu (2009) (4)
Lessons from Somaliland: appropriate technology for 'Peace processes' (2005) (4)
Resolving Conflict in Africa: The Fermeda Workshop. (1971) (4)
The Social Roots and Meaning of Trance and Possession (2011) (3)
Problems in the development of leadership and loyalties in the British Somaliland protectorate and U.N-trusteeship territory of Somalia (1960) (3)
The anthropologist's muse;: An inaugural lecture (1973) (3)
Acquiring Culture (Psychology Revivals) : Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development (2015) (3)
Exorcism and male control of religious experience (1990) (3)
The new East African Republic of Somalia (1960) (3)
The referendum in French Somaliland: aftermath and prospects in the Somali dispute (1967) (3)
Ourselves as Others See Us (1889) (2)
The anthropologist's encounter with the supernatural. (1974) (2)
Some strategies of non-physical aggression in other cultures. (1969) (2)
I. M. Lewis: Somalia: "Nationalism Turned inside out" (1982) (2)
The Somali limeage system and the total genealogy (1957) (2)
The Names Of God In Northern Somali (1959) (2)
TRANCE AND POSSESSION (2002) (2)
Nationalism & Self Determination in the Horn of Africa (1987) (2)
Islam in tropical Africa : studies presented and discussed at the fifth International African Seminar, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, January 1964 (1968) (2)
Acute Crisis in Somalia (1981) (2)
Why Ostriches Don't Fly and Other Tales from the African Bush (1997) (2)
The Modern History of Somaliland: From Nation to State. (1966) (2)
Confessions of a ‘Government’ anthropologist (1977) (2)
Religion and Misfortune: The Bacwezi Complex and Other Spirit Cults of the Zinza of Northwestern Tanzania. (1985) (2)
234. The Godhardunneh Cave Decorations of North-Eastern Somaliland (1958) (2)
Lugbara Religion: Ritual and Authority among an East African people . By John Middleton. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1960. Pp. xii + 276, ill. 38s. (1961) (1)
Social & cultural anthropology in perspective (2003) (1)
Report of the Honorary Director for 1987 (1988) (1)
Parental Terms of Reference: a Patrilineal Kinship Puzzle (1990) (1)
History ‘Functionalised’ (1)
NEW ARABIC DOCUMENTS FROM SOMALIA (1994) (1)
Islam in East Africa . By J. S. Trimingham. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. Pp. 198, map. Price 28 s . (1965) (1)
POSSESSION AND PUBLIC MORALITY—II OTHER COSMOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (2003) (1)
The campaign for Greater Somalia (1962) (1)
Has the Dergue Had Its Day (1978) (1)
Politics, Law, and Ritual in Tribal Society . By Max Gluckman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965. Pp. 339. 47s. 6d.; paper 25s. (1967) (1)
Authority and Change: A Study of the Kallu Institution among the Macha Galla of Ethiopia . By Karl Eric Knutsson. Göteborg: Etnografiska Museet, Etnologiska Studier 29, 1967. Pp. 239. 30 Kroner. (1968) (1)
A Neglected Theme (1989) (1)
Bernardo Bernardi (2010) (1)
POSSESSION AND PSYCHIATRY (2002) (1)
Arguments with Ethnography (1)
The Dervish Fight for Freedom: 1900–20 (2019) (0)
JANET MCINTOSH, The Edge of Islam: power, personhood, and ethno-religious boundaries on the Kenya coast. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (pb $23.95 – 978 0 82234 509 1). 2009, 328 pp. (2011) (0)
David Parkin, Sacred Void: spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 18, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 276 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 521 40466 5. (1995) (0)
Mohamed Omer Beshir, 1926-92 (1992) (0)
The Problems of Independence (2019) (0)
—STRATEGIES OF MYSTICAL ATTACK: PROTEST AND ITS CONTAINMENT (2002) (0)
Rudolph Peters, Islam and Colonialism: The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History , (The Hague, Paris, New York: Mouton, 1979). Pp. ix, 242. (1981) (0)
Report of the Honorary Director for 1986 (1987) (0)
The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence London, Macmillan, 1963. Pp. 241, illus. 30s. (1964) (0)
Italian Policy in Somalia (1967) (0)
Male Control of Women's Spirits (1998) (0)
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Revolution in the Horn of Africa (2019) (0)
Merean Fraenkel: Tribe and class in Monrovia, XII, 244 pp., front., 8 plates. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1964. 40s. (1965) (0)
The Restoration of Colonial Frontiers: 1940–50 (2019) (0)
A study of the prospects for training of young unemployed women in Katutura (1991) (0)
THE GALL A IN NORTHERN SOMALILAND (2016) (0)
Somali Unification: The Italian East African Empire (2019) (0)
A Select Bibliography on Sociology in Somaliland (1955) (0)
The Fulani Penetration into Nupe and Yoruba in the Nineteenth Century (2013) (0)
Seminar on Social Research in the North-East African Region (1967) (0)
AFFLICTION AND ITS APOTHEOSIS (2002) (0)
Deconstructing Descent (0)
The Somali Peninsula: A New Light on Imperial Motives , with a preface by the Hon. Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. Mogadishu and London: Information Services of the Somali Government, 1962. Pp. xiii, 137, maps. 20 s . (1963) (0)
Hikmad Soomaali . By Muuse Haaji Ismaa'iil Galaal, edited, with a grammatical introduction and notes, by B. W. Andrzejewski. London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. 150. 21 s . (1957) (0)
—POSSESSION AND PUBLIC MORALITY— I ANCESTOR CULTS (2002) (0)
Book Reviews : THE SOMALI DISPUTE By JOHN DRYSDALE World Affairs Special Series, Pall Mall Press, London, 1964. 183 pp. 21s (1964) (0)
The Somali Revolution: 1969–76 (2002) (0)
First Footsteps in East Africa. By Sir Richard Burton. Edited by Gordon Waterfield. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Travellers and Explorers series, 1966. Pp. 320, Pl. 4. 50s. (1967) (0)
The 'Wise Man's Choice' (2021) (0)
The Imperial Partition: 1860-97 (2019) (0)
Harold B. Barclay Buurri al Lamaab: a suburban village in the Sudan . (Cornell Studies in Anthropology.) xxi, 296 pp., front., 4 plates. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1964. $5.75. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. 46s.) (1965) (0)
Voice and Power (1997) (0)
Roy Wallis. The Road to Total Freedom: A sociological analysis of Scientology . Pp. vii + 282. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. £6.50. (1978) (0)
Robert F. Gray And P. H. Gulliver (ed.): The family estate in Africa: studies in the role of property in family structure and lineage continuity , v, 265 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. 30s. (1966) (0)
Present & Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession (2021) (0)
The Economics of Trusteeship in Somalia . By Mark Karp. Boston University Press, 1960. Pp. x + 185. $4.50. (1961) (0)
Ethnography & Theory in Anthropology (2021) (0)
Reviews of Books (1923) (0)
Book also Received (1978) (0)
The dynamics of nomadism: Prospects for sedentarization and social change (2018) (0)
United Nations Interventionism, 1991–2004: Somalia (2007) (0)
P. J. Schraeder, Djibouti. World Bibliographical Series, Oxford; Clio Press, 1991, 280 pp., £38.00, ISBN 1 85109 084 3. (1992) (0)
THE COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL FRAMEWORK FOR ETHNICITY IN AFRICA (2007) (0)
Book Reviews : Italian Colonialism in Somalia. By ROBERT L. HESS (Chicago and London, Chicago University Press, 1966). 234 pp. 59s. 6d (1967) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2009) (0)
Somali Democratic Republic (1981) (0)
Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa (2021) (0)
From Trusteeship to Independence: 1950–60 (2019) (0)
Adventures in Somali anthropology (2003) (0)
The Tijaniyya: A Sufi Order in the Modern World . By Jamil M. Abun-Nasr. London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1965. Pp. xi, 204. 36 s. (1967) (0)
John W. Burton, An Introduction to Evans-Pritchard. Studia Instituti Anthropos 45, Freiburg: Freiburg University Press, 1992, 177 pp., ISBN 3 7278 0786 5 paperback. (1995) (0)
The Economics of Trusteeship in Somalia (1961) (0)
Report of the Honorary Director for 1985 (1986) (0)
Islam in Tropical Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fifth International African Seminar, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, January 1964. (1967) (0)
Abdi Ismail Samatar, The State and Rural Transformation in Northern Somalia, 1884–1986. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, xix + 204 pp., $40.00 hardback; $17.50, ISBN 0 299 11994 7 paperback. (1990) (0)
Review: Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia: Revival, Reform and Reaction Hussein Ahmed Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia: Revival, Reform and Reaction (2004) (0)
UNRAVELLING A ‘FLAWED’ HISTORY Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery. By CATHERINE BESTEMAN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 275. $42.50/£32 (ISBN 0-8122-3488-X); $19.95/£15 (ISBN 0-8122-1688-1). (2000) (0)
Shamans & Sex (0)
Frontier Fetishism & The 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa (2021) (0)
J. C. Buxton: Chiefs and strangers: a study of political assimilation among the Mandari . (Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology.) XV, 167 pp., front., 5 plates, map. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. 30s. (1964) (0)
Somalia . By A. A. Castagno Jr. International Conciliation No. 522, New York, 1959. Pp. 337–400. 25 cents. (1960) (0)
A Historico-Functionalist Debate (2021) (0)
TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF ECSTASY (2002) (0)
The Physical and Social Setting (2019) (0)
Abner Cohen: Arab border-villages in Israel: a study of continuity and change in social organization ,xiv, 194 pp. Manchester:Manchester University Press, [1965]. 30s. (1966) (0)
General (2000) (0)
P. Stoller: Fusion of the worlds: an ethnography of possession among the Songhay of Niger. [xxiv], 244 pp. University of Chicago Press, 1989. £19.95, $28.75. (1990) (0)
Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff: Djibouti and the Horn of Africa . xiv, 246 pp., 16 plates. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University press, 1968. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. 71s. 6d) (1969) (0)
Sociology in Somaliland (1954) (0)
Carmen Blacker. The Catalpa Bow: a study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan . Pp. 376, illus. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1975.) £8.75. (1977) (0)
Report of the Honorary Director for 1988 (1989) (0)
A History of the Beja tribes of the Sudan . By A. Paul. Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. 164, map, plates. 15 s . net. (1955) (0)
The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Beligious boundaries on the Kenya Coast (review) (2011) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : Shamans and Endorphins (Special Issue of Ethos) edited by Raymond Prince, Ethos 10 (1982): 299-423 (1984) (0)

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