Charles Kinglsey Meek
| Dr Charles Kinglsey Meek MA DSc | |||||||||
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| Born | 1885 | ||||||||
| Died | 1965 | ||||||||
| Residence |
District Officer, Nigerian Service c/o The Secretariat to Government, Kaduna, Nigeria [1921] Littleheath, Hindhead, Surrey [1923] Royal Societies Club, Kaduna, Northern Provinces, Nigeria [1925] Royal Societies Club, St James, SW1 [1927] Secretariat, Enugu, Nigeria, BW Africa; [club][1931] Royal Societies Club, St James, SW1 [1933] 4 Grouville Park, Grouville, Jersey, CI [1935] Green Tye, Churt, Surrey [1949] | ||||||||
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anthropologist administrative | ||||||||
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Contents
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Office Notes
House Notes
1920.10.16 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by E.N. Fallaize
nominated 26 October 1920
1936 Wellcome medal Law and authority in a Nigerian tribe: a study in indirect rule
*1960.05.05. The resignation of Dr C.K. Meek was received with much regret; Council directed that his name be retained on the Fellows’ List and that a letter be sent expressing sympathy with his illness.
1965.04 death reported
Notes From Elsewhere
Charles Kingsley Meek FRAI FRGS (1885–1965), was a British anthropologist.
Meek was born in Larne on 24 June 1885. He was educated at Bedford School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He subsequently joined the colonial administrative service and became a District Officer and anthropologist in Nigeria. His Northern Tribes of Nigeria (1925) is a classic of African anthropology. His Sudanese Kingdom (1931), a study of the Jukun people, is a significant work of ethnography.[1]
In 1943, Meek was elected as a Senior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. He retired in 1950 and died in Eastbourne on 27 March 1965.
Publications
External Publications
The Northern Tribes of Nigeria. An Ethnographical Account of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria together with a Report on the 1921 Decennial Census. [With a Preface by Sir Hugh Clifford] Oxford University Press, 1925. 2 vols. Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931
· Volume 1: The Bachama and Mbula. The Bata-speaking peoples of the · Adamawa Emirate. The Bura and Pabir tribes. The · Kilba and Margi of Adamawa. Some mandated Tribes. The · Chamba. The Verre. The · Mumuye and neighbouring tribes. The · Mambila (Mandates Territory).
· Volume 2: The · Katab and their neighbours. Some tribes of Zaria Province. Some tribes of Bornu Province. Some tribes of · Adamawa Province. The Yugur-speaking peoples. Divine kings. Some tribes of the Cameroons. (The Ketab, Piti, Chawai, Kurama, Kare-Kare, Ngizim, Gamawa, Bolewa, Kanakuru, Longuda, Gabin, Hona, Mbum, Jibu, Jen, Kam, Tigong, Ndoro, Kentu, etc.)
A Sudanese Kingdom : an ethnographical study of the Jukun-speaking peoples of Nigeria. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931 Europe And West Africa. Some Problems And Adjustments. Oxford University Press, 1940 Land Law And Custom In The Colonies. With an introduction by Lord Hailey. Oxford University Press, London, 1946. Land tenure and land administration in Nigeria and the Cameroons (Colonial research studies; no.22) H.M.S.O, 1957 Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe: A Study in Indirect Rule. New York Barnes & Noble Imports 1970
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
MS 189 Wellcome Medal
A94/13/75 obit.
- Census of British Anthropologists, 71
- JRAI, reports of referees, 25/3/36
- Megalithic monuments, 105/1/24
- Wellcome Medal, 88/1/83-94 passim
