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London, Kegan Paul etc., 1931 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. 2 frontispieces. X,582VIII,633 pp., profusely illustrated on numerous plates, textillustrations, 1 folded map., ex central reference library (never lent out) book with usual stamps & labels, otherwise condition: very good.
Charles Kingsley Meek (1885 1965), or just C. K. Meek, was a British . He wrote about the northern and southern tribesof and studied the . Meek took photographs during some of his fieldwork.
In 1925, he published The NorthernTribes of Nigeria, which became a classic of African anthropology.His Sudanese Kingdom (1931), a study of the people anddivine kingship, is a significant work of ethnography. In his book Lawand Authority in a Nigerian Tribe published in 1937, Meek offers ananthropological study on the social organization of the tribe of Southern Nigeria. . He was a fellow in the and whichawarded him its Wellcome Medal.
In 1943, Meek was elected as a senior research fellow at .He retired in 1950.
