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..
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Betty Potash ; 1960
- Field Date
- 1909-1910
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1932
- Coverage Place
- Sudan
- Notes
- C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman
- Includes bibliographical references
- Only pages dealing with the Shilluk, i-xv and 37-105, are included in this collection
- LCSH
- Shilluk (African people)