book chapter
The Nuba
Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudan • London • Published In 1965 • Pages: 366-412
By: Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel), Seligman, Brenda Z..
Abstract
This document provides general ethnographic notes on a selection of Nuba communities. Themes covered include ethnic history, social organization, religious life, economic activities, and ecology. In discussing these subjects, the author compares Nuba cultural features and institutions with people of other ethnic and linguistic origins living both within the broader Nuba Hills region and beyond.
- Subjects
- Identification
- Linguistic identification
- Historical reconstruction
- External migration
- Inter-ethnic relations
- General character of religion
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- Priesthood
- Rule of descent
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Residence
- culture
- Nuba
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2017
- Field Date
- 1909-1912, 1921-1922
- Coverage Date
- 1909-1922
- Coverage Place
- central South Kordofan, Sudan
- Notes
- By C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 33000579
- LCSH
- Nuba (African people)