G W B Huntingford: 6 books
The Galla of Ethiopia; The Kingdoms of Kafa and Janjero
North Eastern Africa Part II
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.
Concise,...
The Northern Nilo-Hamites
East Central Africa Part VI
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well...
Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646
Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with Bahrey's History of the Galla
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The selections from Almeida, translated and edited, describe the country and its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1954.
The Prester John of the Indies
A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, written by Father Francisco Alvares Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen, among whom was...
The Southern Nilo-Hamites
East Central Africa Part VIII
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well...
by G. W. B. Huntingford
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book examines the political structure of the Nandi tribe in the first half of the twentieth century and contains chapters on the following:
· Land divisions and local authorities
· Age-sets
· War organisation
· Administrative changes
· Law
· Religion.
First published in 1953