George Wynn Brereton Huntingford
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English linguist, anthropologist and historian
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Wynn Brereton Huntingford was an English linguist, anthropologist and historian. He lectured in East African languages and cultures at SOAS, University of London from 1950 until 1966. In 1966, Huntingford went to Canada to organise the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, and retired to Málaga the next year, where he lived after his retirement.
George Wynn Brereton Huntingford's Published Works
Published Works
- The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People (1960) (100)
- The southern Nilo-Hamites (1953) (84)
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A. D. 1325-1354 (1963) (68)
- The periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1980) (50)
- Modern Hunters: Some Account Of The Kâmelilo-Kâpchepkendi Dorobo (Okiek) Of Kenya Colony (1929) (33)
- The Prester John of the Indies (1962) (32)
- Nandi work and culture (1952) (30)
- A Roman Shipmaster's Handbook: Review@@@The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1981) (29)
- The Nandi of Kenya : tribal control in a pastoral society (1953) (28)
- The Land charters of northern Ethiopia (1965) (23)
- The Social Institutions Of The Dorobo (1951) (22)
- The Political Organization of the Dorobo (1954) (19)
- The Economic Life Of The Dorobo (1955) (19)
- 262. Free Hunters, Serf-Tribes, and Submerged Classes in East Africa. (1931) (14)
- The Glorious Victories of 'Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia (1966) (13)
- The Social Organization of the Dorobo (1942) (12)
- The Azanian Civilization of Kenya (1933) (10)
- Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands 1889-1939 (1977) (9)
- Africa: Its Peoples and their Culture History . By George Peter Murdock. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959. Pp. xiv + 456, ill., maps. $8.75. (1960) (9)
- East African background (1950) (8)
- The distribution of certain culture elements in East Africa (1961) (8)
- Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Nandi and Kony Tribes (1927) (7)
- The "Nilo-Hamitic" Languages (1956) (6)
- Stanley's Despatches to the New York Herald, 1871-1872, 1874-1877 (1970) (5)
- The Hagiolithic Cultures of East Africa (1951) (5)
- ‘The wealth of kings‘ and the end of the Zāguē dynasty (1965) (5)
- The Town of Amud, Somalia (1978) (5)
- The Scouring of the White Horse (1957) (4)
- Ancient Agriculture (1932) (4)
- Arabic Inscriptions in Southern Ethiopia (1955) (3)
- The Eastern tribes of the Bantu Kavirondo (1944) (3)
- The Lives of Saint Takle Haymanot (1966) (3)
- THE KINGDOM OF KAFA (1955) (3)
- The Constitutional History of Ethiopia (1962) (3)
- Some Names of Trees and Plants in Masai, Nandi, and Dorobo (1976) (3)
- The Prester John of the Indies. The Prester John of the Indies. A True Relation of the Lands of Prester John, Being the Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520 (1962) (3)
- 217. The Taturu, Mosiro, and Aramanik Dialects of Dorobo. (1931) (3)
- 24. The Genealogy of the Orkoiik of Nandi. (1935) (2)
- 138. Note on Some Names for God (1928) (2)
- 79. Further Notes on Some Names for God (1930) (2)
- 96. Tribal Names in the Nyanza and Kerio Provinces, Kenya Colony (1930) (2)
- African Systems Of Kinship And Marriage . Edited By A. E. Radcliffe-Brown and Daryll Forde. pp. x, 399; 23 illus.; index. London: Oxford University Press (for International African Institute), 1950. 35s. (1952) (1)
- Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. I, Harari. (1966) (1)
- Afrique: les civilisations noires. Par Jacques J. Maquet. Paris: Horizons de France, 1962. Pp. 287, 16 coloured plates, 200 photographs, 17 maps. [Price not stated.] (1964) (1)
- Nandi Kinship and Clans (1972) (1)
- Currency-Bars (1934) (1)
- Terraces in Kenya (1934) (1)
- African Cultures (1960) (1)
- 55. Ghosts and Devils in East Africa (1928) (1)
- Megaliths in Kenya (1935) (1)
- 45. Ancient Roads and Dykes in Kenya Colony (1931) (1)
- Defences against Cattle-Raiding (1934) (1)
- 185. On the Classification of the Half-Hamites of East Africa (1939) (1)
- The Nandi Pororiet (1)
- 139. Note on the "Taturu" Language (1928) (0)
- Robert F. Gray: The Sonjo of Tanganyika: an anthropological study of an irrigation-based society. xiv, 181 pp., front., 4 plates. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1963. 37s. 6d. (1964) (0)
- The Inscription of Baha in Kafa (1955) (0)
- 187. "Bride-Price" in Antiquity: Further Alternatives for This Term. (1931) (0)
- 208. African Abstracts (Bulletin Analytique Africaniste). (1951) (0)
- The City States of East Africa: Review@@@The Medieval History of the Coast of Tanganyika: With Special Reference to Recent Archaeological Discoveries@@@The East African Coast: Select Documents from the First to the Earlier Nineteenth Century (1963) (0)
- Lloyd Cabot Briggs Tribes of the Sahara , xxi, 295 pp., front., 16 plates. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1960. 32s. U. (1962) (0)
- Paul Spencer: The Samburu: a study of gerontocracy in a nomadic tribe . xxv, 341 pp., 4 plates. London: Koutledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 40s. (1966) (0)
- Étude Descriptive et Comparative Du Gafat (Éthiopien Méridional) . By Wolf Leslau. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1956. pp. xx, 277, 2 maps. Price 2,200 francs. (1957) (0)
- "The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea by an unknown author with some extracts from Agatharkhides On the Erythrean Sea", transl. and edited by G. W. B. Huntingford, London 1980 : [recenzja] / Ewa Wipszycka. (1983) (0)
- Michael Gelfand: Shona ritual, with special reference to the Chaminuka cult . xi, 217 pp., front., 14 plates. Cape Town, etc.: Juta & Co., Ltd., 1959. 37s. 6d. (1960) (0)
- The Fung Kingdom of Sennar, with a Geographical Account of the Middle Nile Region . By O. G. S. Crawford, pp. xvii, 359; 38 plates and 25 text figures. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1951. £2 15s. (1953) (0)
- Godfrey Lienhardt: Divinity and experience: the religion of the Dinka . x, 328 pp., front., 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. 42s. (1962) (0)
- The Inscription of Baha in Kafa (1955) (0)
- 177. The Boats of Victoria Nyanza: I. (1937) (0)
- NOTE ON THE DATING OF TWO ETHIOPIC MANUSCRIPTS (1963) (0)
- J. D. Fage: An atlas of African history . 64 pp. [London]: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1958. 30 s . (1959) (0)
- Prehistoric Ox-Yoking (1934) (0)
- William A. Shack: The Gurage: a people of the ensete culture , xiii, 222 pp., front., 6 plates. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1966. 50s. (1966) (0)
- 140. Notes on Charms Worn by Nandi Women (0)
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard: Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer. 11, 183 pp., 9 plates, 9 maps and figs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951,15s. (1954) (0)
- I. M. Lewis: Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho . (Ethnographic Survey of Africa. North Eastern Africa, Part I.) ix, 200 pp., map. London: International African Institute, 1955. 21s. (1956) (0)
- James Kirkman: Ungwana on the Tana . (Studies in African History, Anthropology and Ethnology, iv.) 129 pp., including 16 plates. The Hague, Paris: Mouton and Co., 1966. Guilders 30. (1967) (0)
- Nandi Customary Law. By G. S. Snell. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1954. Pp. xiv + 154. 3s. 4d. net. (1955) (0)
- Huntingford — Family and place-name (1947) (0)
- Sture Lagercrantz: Contribution to the ethnography of Africa. (Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, I.) xix, 430 pp. 2 plates. Lund: Hékan Ohlssons Boktryckeri, 1950. £9. (1957) (0)
- East African background : the peoples of Kenya (1945) (0)
- The Prehistory of East Africa . By Sonia Cole. London: Penguin Books, 1954. Pp. 301, illus. and maps. 2 s . 6 d . (1956) (0)
- J.C.D. Lawrance: The Iteso: fifty years of change in a Nilo-Hamitic tribe of Uganda . xx, 280 pp. front., 10 plates, map [in end-pocket]. London etc.: Oxford University Press, 1957. 36s. (1958) (0)
- Jacques J. Maquet: The premise of inequality in Ruanda: a study of political relations in a central African kingdom , ix, 199 pp., front., 6 plates. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1961. 35s. (1961) (0)
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