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Nuer cultural summary
[s.n.] • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 1956 • Pages:
By: Murdock, George Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article consists of a culture summary made by the author, a professional anthropologist, from published and unpublished materials read and analyzed by him. It mentions in brief information about basic economy, property, marriage and family, residence, consanguineal kin groups and exogamy, kinship terminology, community organization, as well as sources.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- 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.
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sobat Province, South Sudan; Jonglei Province, South Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- George P. Murdock
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-8)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuer (African people)