John Francis Marchment Middleton

John Francis Marchment Middleton (22 May 1921 – 27 February 2009)^[1] was a British professor of anthropology in the United States, specializing in Africa. He was director of the International African Institute in 1973-74 and in 1980–81. His work on the Lugbara religion is considered a classic of African anthropology.^[2]

Biography

Middleton was born and grew up in

During his long career, he was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, the University of Oregon, University of Lagos in Nigeria, and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He was editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara (1997) and of the expanded New Encyclopedia of Africa (2007).

Middleton died on Friday, 27 February 2009, at the

• 2001 Thomas Henry Huxley Memorial Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute^[4]
• 2007 Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies Association^[5]

Selected works

• 1953 The Central Tribes of the North-Eastern Bantu; the Kikuyu, including Embu, Meru, Mbere, Chuka, Mwimbi, Tharaka, and the Kamba of Kenya, London:
  OCLC 3416265
• 1960 Lugbara religion; ritual and authority among an East African people International African Institute, Oxford University Press, London
  OCLC 361464
• 1961 Land Tenure in Zanzibar, London:
  OCLC 4170330
• 1965 The Lugbara of Uganda, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
  OCLC 492118
• 1992 The World of the Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization, New Haven: Yale University Press,
  ISBN 0-300-05219-7
• 2000 The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society, Blackwell Publishers,
  ISBN 978-0-631-18919-0 (co-written with Mark Horton
  )