Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria (two volumes)

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.