Submitted: Sat, 3 May 1997 14:14:29 +0300 Herbert S. Lewis Professor Emeritus Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Madison 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA phone: 608-262-1802 fax: 608-265-216 e-mail: hslewis@macc.wisc.edu Research interests: African political systems and politics, culture history, cultural change, ethnicity and ethnopolitics; primarily Ethiopia, Somalia, East and Northeast Africa.