Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer (Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas)

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Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Professor of Anthropology and American Ethnic Studies
Kansas State University
206 Waters Hall
Manhattan, Kansas  66506  USA

phone:        785-532-4981
fax:          785-532-6978
e-mail:       mahafan@ksu.edu

Research on language, music, and culture in the Comoro Islands.  Also
research on the African origins of the blues.  


Publications include:  

"Shinzwani-English/English-Shinzwani Dictionary"  1986 computer disk data
set, currently in preparation for book publication;

"Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands" (with Martin
Ottenheimer), 1994 Scarecrow Press;  

"Music of the Comoro Islands" (with Martin Ottenheimer), 1992
Smithsonian/Folkways; 

"The Classification of the Languages of the Comoro Islands" in
Anthropological Linguistics, December 1977, pp 408-415; 

"Comoro Crossroads: African Bardic Traditions and the Origins of the
Blues" in Human Mosaic, 1993, vol 26 no 2 pp 32-38; 

"The Bardic Origins of the Blues" in The World and I, November 1997, pp
492-503.