John Middleton (anthropologist)

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John Middleton (born May 22, 1921 in London , † February 27, 2009 in New Haven (Connecticut) ) was a British anthropologist, Africanist and colonial official. From 1981 until his retirement in 1991, he was Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Yale University , having previously taught at the University of London , New York University and elsewhere. He has done anthropological research in Uganda , Nigeria and Ghana .

In 1958 he worked in Zanzibar on land leases under the central Swahili (published under the title Land Tenure in Zanzibar , 1961) and later in the 1980s under the northern Swahili of the city of Lamu in Kenya in a broad ethnographic study published in 1992 under the title The World of the Swahili appeared.

He wrote a monograph on the religion of the Lugbara (1960) and was the editor of the Encyclopaedia of Africa South of the Sahara (1997). Middleton died at Yale on February 27, 2009.

Fonts

  • Lugbara Religion: Ritual and Authority Among an East African People. London International African Institute / Oxford University Press 1960
  • The Lugbara of Uganda. New York [u. a.]: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965
  • with Campbell, Jane: Zanzibar. Its Society and its Politics. Oxford University Press London 1965
  • Land tenure in Zanzibar / Colonial Office . London: Her Maj.'s Stat. Off., 1961 (Colonial research studies; 33)
  • (ed.) Black Africa. Its Peoples and Their Cultures Today. Macmillan London 1970
  • Beattie, John. Middleton, John (eds.): Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa. NY Africana Pub. 1969
  • Middleton, John and David Tait. (Editors). Preface by EE Evans-Pritchard. Tribes Without Rulers. Studies in African Segmentary Systems. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1964. (Second impression)
  • Cohen, Ronald; Middleton, John, eds .: From tribe to nation in Africa; studies in incorporation processes. Edited by Ronald Cohen and John Middleton. Scranton, Chandler Pub. Co. [1970]; ISBN 0810200031
  • Cohen, Ronald, and Middleton, John (Joint Editors): Comparative Political Systems. Garden City, NY Published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press 1967
  • World of Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization. 1994. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. 4 volumes. 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Middleton, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British anthropologist, Africanist and colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2009
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut) , USA