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Economic life of the Nuer: cattle
Sudan notes and record • 21 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 31-77
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ecological survey of the Nuer. As the title indicates, the importance of cattle in the Nuer economy is clearly brought out. (The secondary importance of tillage is also indicated.) One of the main factors in the Nuer migratory pattern is the need for pasturage for their cattle. The other factors in this pattern -- the need for high ground in flood time, and the need for properly drained (but moist) soil for millet -- are also adequately covered. There is a thorough description of the Nuer country, including a catalogue of insect pests, also some discussion of Nuer geographical lore. In short, the ecological background of Nuer social and political organization is outlined.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- Animal husbandry
- Water supply
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nuer
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social 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
- Arthur Fields ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1931, 1936
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1902-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sobat and Jonglei Provinces, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk83015138
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuer (African people)