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The Nuer of the Southern Sudan
African political systems • London • Published In 1940 • Pages: 272-296
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article briefly summarizes Nuer culture and emphasizes the political functions of its social systems. Tribal system, lineage system, age-system, and the settling of feuds and disputes are described and analyzed. No new information is presented beyond that to be found in greater detail in 1: Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Age stratification
- Lineages
- Tribe and nation
- 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.
- 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
- Louise E. Sweet ; 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
- By E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56058065
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuer (African people)