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Nuer / Audrey Butt Colson [and six others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colson, Audrey Butt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuer (African people).
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2002.
- Summary:
- The major ethnographers of the Nuer represented are E.E. Evans-Pritchard (field work: 1930-1936), and Douglas Johnson (1975-1990). Douglas Johnson's work is mostly historical covering the period of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium (1898-1955) with a focus on the role of prophets in Nuer social, political, and religious life. Evans-Pritchard describes Nuer ecology, subsistence, sociopolitical organization, kinship and marriage, and religion.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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