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Titre(s) : Empire and the Nuer [Texte imprimé] : sources on the pacification of the southern Sudan, 1898-1930 / edited by Douglas H. Johnson
Publication : Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXXVIII-320 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Fontes Historiae Africanae ; 13
Lien à la collection : Fontes historiae Africanae New series
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 291-314
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 1930.0The 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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Johnson, Douglas Hamilton (1949-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Nuer (peuple d'Afrique) -- Soudan du Sud -- 1900-1945 -- Sources
Colonies britanniques -- Afrique -- 1900-1945 -- Sources
Soudan du Sud -- 1899-1956 -- Sources
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197265888. - ISBN 019726588X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44470796z
Notice n° :
FRBNF44470796
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