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...