C. K. Meek
Charles Kingsley Meek FRGS FRAI, often noted as C. K. Meek (24 June 1885 – 27 March 1965), was a British anthropologist. He wrote about the northern tribes of Nigeria and studied the Jukun people. Meek took photographs during some of his field work.[1][2]
Meek studied theology at Oxford. In 1912 he joined the colonial service and was posted in northern Nigeria in 1912. He was made Government Anthropologist under governor-general Frederick Lugard who sought to extend his policy of indirect rule south and wanted to know more about local practice. [1] Meek attained the rank of Resident and transferred to the southern provinces of Nigeria in 1929 before resigning due to health issues in 1933.[1]
In 1925 he published The Northern Tries of Nigeria and in 1931 A Sudanese Kingdom about divine kingship among the Jukun-speaking peoples. He did scholarly research with R. R. Marett and C. G. Seligman. He was a fellow in the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Anthropological Institute which awarded him its Wellcome Medal.[1]
Bibliography
- The Niger and the Classics: The History of a Name. The Journal of African History. Vol. 1, No. 1, 1960.
- Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe. Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-389-04031-2, 1937.
- A Sudanese Kingdom: An Ethnographic Stud of the Jukun-speaking Peoples of Nigeria. London: Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co., 1931.
- The Northern Tribes of Nigeria. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1925.
- Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria. (2 vols) London: Kegan Paul, 1931.