Talk:Nuer

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Zuni girl; photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903

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Please don't take this page as being authoritive, My parents have a few of these people living with them, and I will hopefully be able to ask them to correct my perceptions AaronPeterson 23:21, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] well organised?

The text argues for Nuer's superirority over the Dinka. This is explained as the Nuer are supposedly: "very well organized" . Contradictory, the ethnographical account a sentence later states an "anarchististic political organization." This should be resolved by refering to inner fragmentation of the Nuer in times of peace to the unity of the Nuer in times of war with non-kin. —the preceding comment is by Daebwae - 16:49, 11 March 2006: Please sign your posts!

[edit] Nuer tribe

The Nuer people are known for their very tall stature, similar to the Dinka people. Many men and women are as much as 7 feet(210cm) tall with some even taller.

[edit] that picture is offensive

is there really nothing better?
la gaie 22:45, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
the picture you have here in your site is not a good picture. you want to show the Dinka tribe member as a slave to Nuer tribe member —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.0.155.115 (talk • contribs) 10:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Unless I am reading your comment incorrectly, this is what the caption already indicates (though I'm not sure anyone "wants" to show someone as a slave; maybe that was your point?). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
This may all be moot. As the uploader did not cite a source (nor a license) for the image, it is subject to deletion. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bibliography

Someone posted a very lengthy bibliography, which I suspect was copied out of some library's catalog (and as such, I wonder if that constitutes a copyright violation). Anyway, it seems overly lengthy to include in the article; if some reader is sufficiently interested then she could search a library's catalog for these or other resources. In case someone decides the list is worthy of inclusion, I have already gone ahead and formatted it (see below), but I think it should be pared down. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:22, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Further reading

  • Abusharaf, Rogaia (2002). Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Beidelman, T. O. (1966) "The Ox and Nuer Sacrifice: Some Freudian Hypotheses about Nuer Symbolism". Man (n.s.) 1:453-467.
  • Beidelman, T. O. (1968) "Some Nuer Notions of Nakedness, Nudity, and Sexuality". Africa 38:113-131.
  • Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1987) "Kinship and the Local Community among the Nuer". In African Systems of Kinship and Marriage. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Daryll Forde, Eds. London: KPI Ltd.
  • (1940) The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • (1940) "The Nuer of the Southern Sudan". In African Political Systems. M. Fortes and E.E. Evans-Prtitchard, eds. Pp. 272-296. London: Oxford University Press.
  • (1951) Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • (1951) "Kinship and Local Community among the Nuer". In African Systems of Kinship and Marriage. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and D. Forde, eds. Pp. 360-391. London: Oxford University Press.
  • (1956) Nuer Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Falge, Christiane (1997). The Nuer as Refugees: A Study on Social Adaptation. M.A. Thesis. Addis Abeba University.
  • Feyissa, Dereje (2003). Ethnic Groups and Conflict: The Case of Anywass-Nuer relations. Unpublished PhD Dissertation in Social Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
  • Holtzman, Jon (2000) Nuer Journeys Nuer Lives: Sudanese in Minnesota. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
  • Howell, Paul (1954) A Manual of Nuer Law. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Hutchinson, Sharon (1996) Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • (1980) "Relations between the Sexes among the Nuer: 1930". Africa 50:371-387.
  • (1985) "Changing Concepts of Incest among the Nuer". American Ethnologist 12:625-641.
  • (1990) "Rising Divorce among the Nuer, 1936-1983". Man (n.s.)25: 593-411.
  • (1991) "War through the Eyes of the Dispossessed: Three Stories of Survival". Disasters 15: 166-171.
  • (1992) "The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930-1983". American Ethnologist 19: 294-316.
  • (1992) "'Dangerous to Eat': Rethinking Polution States among the Nuer of Sudan". Africa 62:490-504.
  • (1994) "On The Nuer Conquest". Current Anthropology 35: 643-651.
  • Johnson, Douglas H. (2003) The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • (1994) Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • (1982) "Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer, and the Sudan Political Service". African Affairs 81:231-246.
  • (1988) "The Southern Sudan" The Minority Rights Group Report. No. 78.
  • Jok, Madut Jok (2001) War and Slavery in Sudan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Jok, Jok Madut, and Sharon Hutchinson (1999). "Sudan’s Prolonged Second Civil War and the Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Ethnic Identities". African Studies Review 42 (2): 125-145.
  • Scroggins, Deborah (2002) Emma’s War. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Seligman, C.G., and B.Z. Seligman (1932) Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan. London: G. Routledge and Sons.
  • Shandy, Dianna J. (2003) "Transnational Linkages between Refugees in Africa and in the Diaspora". Forced Migration Review. Volume 16 (3) 7-8.
  • (2002) "Nuer Christians in America", Journal of Refugee Studies special issue on Religion and Forced Migration, volume 15 (2) 213-221.
  • (2001) "Routes and Destinations: Secondary Migration of Nuer Refugees in the United States". In Negotiating Transnationalism. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants Selected Papers, Volume VIII. Pp. 9-31. MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Wellmeier, eds. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.
  • Southhall, Aidan (1976) "Nuer and Dinka are People: Ecology, Ethnicity, and Logical Possibility". Man (n.s.) 11: 463-491.
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