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The Shilluk peace ceremony
Sudan notes and records • 3 • Published In 1920 • Pages: 296-299
By: Oyler, D. S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author describes the settlement of a feud which he witnessed while serving as a missionary among the Shilluk. He discusses the role of the king, district chief, and neighboring chieftains in bringing about peace as well as the ceremonies of peace making. There are indications throughout the account that the king and chiefs serve primarily as mediators without enforcement powers since feuding factions can refuse to settle the dispute.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Judicial authority
- Peacemaking
- Crime
- Offenses against life
- Sanctions
- Social control
- Inter-community relations
- Chief executive
- Community heads
- 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
- article
- 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
- Betty Potash ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1918
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- D. S. Oyler
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk83015138
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shilluk (African people)