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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nuba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1909-1912, 1921-1922
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1909-1922
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central South Kordofan, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 33000579
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuba (African people)