Scheub, Harold

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Scheub, Harold
Other forms of name
Scheub, Harold E
Scheub, Harold Ernest
Date of birth
1931-08-26
Date of death
2019-10-16
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
African literature
Oral tradition
Xhosa drama
Zulu drama
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 308779058
Wikidata: Q27881313
Library of congress: n 86021559
Sources of Information
  • His A review of African oral traditions and literature, 1984:t.p. (Harold Scheub; Dept. of Afr. Langs. & Lit., Univ. of Wisc., Madison)
  • LC in RLIN, 7/30/87(hdg.: Scheub, Harold)
  • SANB 1993(hdg.: Scheub, H. E. (Harold Ernest); usage: Harold Scheub)
  • Story, 1998:CIP t.p. (Harold Scheub) data sht. (Scheub, Harold E.)
  • The Ntsomi: a Xhosa performing art, 1969:preliminary title page (Harold Ernest Scheub; thesis, University of Wisconsin) main title page (Harold E. Scheub) page 6 (taped collection of performances in South Africa in 1967 and 1968, among Xhosa-language groups and Zululand)
  • LCN

Wikipedia description:

Harold Scheub (August 26, 1931 – October 16, 2019) was an American Africanist, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities Emeritus in the Department of African Languages and Literature (now the Department of African Cultural Studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Scheub has recorded and compiled oral literature from across southern Africa.

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