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The Central Ethiopians: Amhara, Tigrina and related peoples, Part IV of the ‘North‐eastern Africa’ series in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa. London: International African Institute, 1974.Google Scholar

Gods and Heroes: oral traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia, translated and edited in collaboration with Habte‐Mariam Marcos. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.Google Scholar

Shack also edited, with Elliott Skinner, Strangers in African Societies (Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1979); and, with Percy Cohen, Politics in Leadership: a comparative perspective (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), in which were the essays presented at the LSE in 1975 in honour of Professor Isaac Schapera (who had taught Shack there).Google Scholar