Faculty Profiles

 

Thomas O. Beidelman

Professor of Anthropology
B.A. 1953, M.A. 1956, Illinois; M.A. 1963, D. Phil., 1961, Oxford.

Research interests include social anthropology; religion; colonial history; oral literature; Africa and ancient Greece.

Publications

The Cool Knife; Metaphors of Gender, Sexuality and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual
. Smithsonian Instititute Press, Washington. 1997.

The Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought. Smithsonian Institution [reprinted]. 1993.

Colonial Evangelism; A Socio-historical study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots. Indiana University Press. 1982.

The Kaguru. Holt-Rinehart. 1971.