Empire and the Nuer
Subtitle: Documents and Texts from the Pacification of the Southern Sudan 1898-1930
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng; ssa
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780197265888
Subjects: Nuer (african people)
Description: The documents edited here cover the significant events in the contact, conquest, and pacification of the Nuer from 1898 to 1930. They contain some of the earliest 20th-century ethnographic descriptions of the Nuer and their Dinka and Mabaan neighbors. Together these sources provide a 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.