l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Dr.

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

sherz1@home.com

Research Fellow
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Nigeria

Africa, ethno-economic history, religion, symbolism.

Doctoral dissertation on "Sociocultural Organization and Locational
Strategies of Transportation Entrepreneurs: An Ethnoeconomic History of
the Nnewi Igbo of Nigeria" (Stella B. Silverstein, Boston University,
1983)

"The Art of Nigerian Business: Igbo Entrepreneurial Innovation Using
Family organization" In Anthropology and International Business: Studies
in Third World Societies (1986)

Papers Presented:

"Igbo Models of Socioeconomic Organization," University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, 1978.

"Transitions in the Role of the Elderly in Nigeria" Northeastern
Anthropological Society (NAS), 1980.

"Ethnohistory of Igbo Stratification," African Studies Association (ASA),
1981.

"Historical Systems of Entrepreneurial Training Among the Igbo," American
Anthropological Association (AAA), 1983.

"Urban Hierarchy Effects on Transport Expansion & Economic Change,"
I.C.A.E.S. Quebec. 1983.

"Ethnic & Media Education: impact on Cultural Economics" I.C.A.E.S.
Quebec. 1983.

"Historical, Cultural & Situational Causes of Igbo Investment in
Transport," A.A.A.S., 1983.

"Ifa divination Historico-Symbolic Structural Analysis," ASA, 1983.

"Ethnohistory of Igbo Stratification," ASA, 1983.

"Igbo Masquerades: Historical Forms of Social Control" NAS, 1983.

"Urbanism, Ethnic Associations & Economics: Nnewi Igbo Businessmen,"
AAA, 1984.

"Apprenticeship, Transport, & Igbo Educational Culture," AAA, 1985.

"Nnewi Igbo Women's Associations; Locational Organization & Charters
for Behavior," ASA 1985.

"Small Urban Rural Communities, Development; Nnewi Igbo Development of
Transport Economy," ASA 1986.

ethno-economic history ; religion ; symbolism.