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Nuer rules of exogamy and incest
Social structure ; studies presented to A. R. Radcliffe-Brown • Oxford • Published In 1949 • Pages: 85-103
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents the author's description and analysis of Nuer rules of exogamy and incest, their relationship to each other and to Nuer social structure. The incest taboos are functions of the rules of exogamy, not of notions of consanguinity; the rules of exogamy differentiate among persons in Nuer society, indicate kinship status, and keep clear other structurally important relationships within and between communities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Age stratification
- Regulation of marriage
- Kin groups
- Sex and marital offenses
- Kinship regulation of sex
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; 1957
- 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
- 1930-1936
- 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
- 49011714
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuer (African people)