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The Azande 1932 • Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel) & Seligman, Brenda Z. (Salaman)
Azande • Africa > Central Africa
...The Nubabook chapter 1965 • Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel) & Seligman, Brenda Z.
Nuba • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document provides general ethnographic notes on a selection of Nuba communities. Themes covered include ethnic history, social organization, religious life, economic activities, and ecology. In discussing these subjects, the author compares Nuba...Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudanbook chapter 1932 • Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel) & Seligman, Brenda Z.
Shilluk • Africa > Eastern Africa
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 co...The VeddasBook 1911 • Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel) et al.
Vedda • Asia > South Asia
The authors of this first comprehensive study of the Veddas devoted most of their attention to the jungle-dwelling Veddas whose way of life is more primitive that the Village Veddas and the Coastal Veddas. All of them, however, have come under the in...