Book
Southeast Nuba social relations
Alano, Edition Herodot • Aachen • Published In 1989 • Pages: 390
By: Faris, James C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book discusses the constitution of social relationships among three communities in the southeastern Nuba Hills, drawing on detailed accounts of the inner workings of clans and sub-clans, organized ceremonials, and the social functions of specialists such as artisans, drummers, dancers, priests, magicians and curers. The author argues that the communities, although seemingly classless and egalitarian in ideology, actually consist of a subtle, hierarchical web of clans, age grades, and specialist groups that provide opportunities for the appropriation of labor and resources from others. The Nuba in these communities are socialized to accept these divisions as natural and necessary for the orderly functioning and reproduction of social life across generations. For the author, however, this ideology masks the pervasiveness of power differentials (including sexism) between individuals and groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Rule of descent
- Clans
- Lineages
- Ethos
- Inter-community relations
- Classes
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- Age stratification
- Sodalities
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Sex and marital offenses
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Special courts
- Initiation of judicial proceedings
- Cult of the dead
- 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
- 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
- 1966-1969, 1977, 1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern South Kordofan, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- James C. Faris
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90171540
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuba (African people)