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

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Research Interests:

Social anthropology; religion; colonial history; oral literature; Africa and ancient Greece.

Selected Works:

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.

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