Ian HAMNETT [9679]

  General Notes:

Ian was an academic studying human anthropology in Lesotho Africa.
He was made Vice Chancellor of Bristol University.
He became an honorary chief in Basutoland (Lesotho) and their house was full of African memorabilia.
S W Purkis - 2021.

Ian Hamnett, a social anthropologist, completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh on Sotho law and custom in Basutoland in 1970. He was subsequently senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol and is the author of Chieftainship and legitimacy: an anthropological study of executive law in Lesotho (London: Routledge, 1975).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/720581 · PDF file
A CASE STUDY IN LESOTHO by IAN HAMNETT University of Bristol FOR MANY DECADES, Lesotho-formerly Basutoland-has been cited as one of the classic cases in Africa of the problems of increasing land shortage as a source of economic insecurity and social tensions. Land shortage in Lesotho.

Chieftainship and legitimacy: An anthropological study of executive law in Lesotho (International library of anthropology)
Hardcover \endash January 1, 1975
by Ian Hamnett (Author).

Ambiguity, Classification and Change: The Function of Riddles
http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Riddles/hamnet.html

Ian married someone Jennifer Diana LIVEING [9368] [MRIN: 2940], daughter of Edward George Downing LIVEING [457] and Gladys Constance BAKER [2043]. The marriage ended in divorce. (Jennifer Diana LIVEING [9368] was born on 19 Jan 1932 in Lancashire Eng. and died on 28 Jan 2009.)