book chapter
Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
George Routledge and Sons Ltd. • London • Published In 1932 • Pages:
By: Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel), Seligman, Brenda Z..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The materials in this document provide a good overall account of Shilluk culture based primarily on the authors' own fieldwork with supplementary materials drawn from other accounts. While the treatment is necessarily brief it is comprehensive and covers all aspects of Shilluk culture except for technology and material culture. The authors appear to rely on informants' statements about Shilluk culture and traditions and to depend on this rather than on personal observation or investigation. As a result the normative aspects of culture are stressed and there is little information on variability or on day to day life. The authors were social anthropologists.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethos
- Settlement patterns
- Household
- Community structure
- Lineages
- Ethnozoology
- Mythology
- Territorial hierarchy
- Classes
- General character of religion
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shilluk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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 chapter
- 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
- Betty Potash ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1909-1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman
- Only pages dealing with the Shilluk, i-xv and 37-105, are included in this collection
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shilluk (African people)