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Empire and the Nuer - Sources on the Pacification of the Southern Sudan, 1898-1930 (Hardcover)
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Empire and the Nuer - Sources on the Pacification of the Southern Sudan, 1898-1930 (Hardcover)
Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae, Vol. 13
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The Nuer people of South Sudan hold a special if unwanted place in
imperial history as the object of Britain's last 'pacification'
campaign in Africa. Territorial conquest was completed with the
annexation of the independent sultanate of Darfur in 1916, but
military pacification continued throughout the first thirty years
of the twentieth century, culminating in 'the Nuer Settlement'.
These campaigns are important for another reason: they were the
cause of the Sudan government redirecting the anthropologist, E.E.
Evans-Pritchard (against his will) to study of the Nuer, which he
did in a succession of field visits between 1930 and 1936. The
trilogy of monographs that he published were formative in the
development of British social anthropology and are one of the main
reasons why the Nuer are so well-known internationally today. This
volume consists of twenty-five administrative reports, supplemented
by transcripts of five interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants.
Together these cover the significant events in the contact,
conquest, and pacification of the Nuer from 1898 to 1930. The
documents contain some of the earliest twentieth-century
ethnographic descriptions of the Nuer and their Dinka and Mabaan
neighbours. Together these sources provide an historical context
for further understanding Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, as well as
a more detailed understanding of the events that led to
incorporation of the Nuer into the colonial state. The final
document is an abstract of a talk given by Evans-Pritchard to the
Oxford Summer School on Colonial Administration in 1938. This
contained observations, based in part on his fieldwork among the
Nuer, which are relevant today to understanding the
post-independence history of South Sudan. This book is a
significant contribution to the source materials on the history of
South Sudan and for the study of the relationship between colonial
states and the development of the discipline of social
anthropology.
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