Dr. Messing is a cultural anthropologist whose professional
concerns include four-field anthropology, ethnography, and applied medical
anthropology. He has studied social
change in pre-urban communities through extensive fieldwork in rural
B.A. Social Sciences. 1949. New York City College.
Ph.D. Anthropology. 1957.
Southern
Connecticut
State
University :
Professor of Anthropology, 1967-1989
Professor Emeritus, 1989-present
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1957. AnnArbor: University
Microfilms, 715 pp.
Target of Health in
The Story of
the Falashas: "Black Jews" of
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Ethiopian folktales ascribed to the
late nineteenth century Amhara wit, Aläqa Gäbre-Hanna, Simon D. Messing. Journal of
American Folklore 70(275):69-72, 1956/57.
Further comments on
resin-coated pottery:
Group Therapy and Social Status in the Zar Cult of
A
modern Ethiopian play--selfstudy in culture change. Anthropological
Quarterly. --
The
nonverbal language of the Ethiopian Toga. Anthropos.
55:558-561. 1960.
A
method for historical reconstruction of demographic growth in African small
towns. Current Anthropology. 5(3):212. 1964.
The
little community in applied anthropology - a case in medical research.
Application of a Health Questionnaire to Pre-urban Communities. Human Organization 21(4):366 -372. 1965.
Social
problems related to the development of health in
Individualistic patterns in Amhara onomastics ETHOS 2(1):77-94, 1974
The Problem of Operations Based on Custom in Applied
Anthropology: the Challenge of the Hosken Report on Genital and Sexual
Mutilation of Females. Human Organization (39):295-297, 1980.
BOOK CHAPTERS
The Abyssinian Market Town, in Paul Bohannan and George
Dalton (editors), Markets in
Interdigitation
of mystical and physical healing in
Emics
and Etics of Health Problems in
Health
care, ethnic outcasting and the problem of overcoming the syndrome of
encapsulation in a peasant society [
1959
American Anthropologist article reprinted as:
Group
therapy and social status in the Zar cult of
Group
therapy and social status in the Zar cult of
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS [under
construction]
Non-maximizing
marketing patterns in a provincial Abyssinian town and the traditional division
of labor. Internationaal Congress of Anthropological
and Ethnological Sciences. 6th,
Some Unpublished Documents Relating to the Twentieth Century
History of the Beta
REPORTS [Under
construction]
Ethnographic
field work in
Applied Anthropology Documentation Project:
Indigenous face the health care officer in Ethiopia.
Ecology and the anatomy of envy as problems in human development.
Point four report. [TBA]
