Book
Nuer customs and folklore
International Institute of African Language and Culture • London • Published In 1931 • Pages:
By: Huffman, Ray, Westermann, Diedrich.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Huffman, a missionary who has lived among the Nuer for several years and speaks the language, presents here a concise account of their material culture and social life. There are chapters on the Nuer history, economy, daily routine, language, religious beliefs, and customs relating to birth, initiation, courtship, marriage and death. Representative examples of Nuer folk tales are also included. Huffman's presentation is mostly factual with almost no attempt at interpretation. Occasionally, personal value judgment enters into the account, but a sympathetic tone is maintained throughout the book.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Body alterations
- Daily routine
- Literary texts
- Mode of marriage
- Missions
- Puberty and initiation
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1957
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1927-1929
- 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 Ray Huffman, with an introd. by D. Westermann
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuer (African people)