A comprehensive history of the indigenous people of Sudan based on interviews and local genealogies, first published in 1922.

A comprehensive history of the indigenous people of Sudan based on interviews and local genealogies, first published in 1922.

H. A. MacMichael (1882 1969) was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933 and was the deputy Inspector of Kordofan province in Sudan between 1906 and 1912. After combining his administrative duties with ethnographic research, he published this volume as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnographic Series in 1912: it was the first major ethnographic work on the Sudan. The book combines the history of the province with genealogical information based on interviews MacMichael conducted with local people during his long tenure in Kordofan. The ethnography's...

Originally published in 1913 as a supplement to The Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan, this volume provides a study of the brands used by camel owners in the Kordofan region of central Sudan. Part one of the text contains the names of brands arranged in alphabetical order, with a note in each case of the tribal sections which most commonly use the brand as their distinctive mark. Part two contains a list of the chief camel-owning tribes of Kordofan and the desert lying between it and Dongola, naming, where possible, the different brands used by each section or subsection. The text is...