The Upper Nile Province Handbook

Author : Charles Armine Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Upper Nile Province Handbook written by Charles Armine Willis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology.

Author : C. A. Wills
Publisher : Africa World Books Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780994363107
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Upper Nile Province Handbook written by C. A. Wills and published by Africa World Books Pty Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE UPPER NILE PROVINCE HANDBOOKA Report on Peoples and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1931 compiled by C.A. Willis edited byDouglas H. JohnsonThis account of what used to be one of Sudan's remotest provinces provides the historical context forthe early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life by some of thefirst British officials to become conversant in the languages of the Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk and Anuak ? ata time when the anthropologist, E.E. Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork in the province had only just begun.It also includes documentation on the origins of the Jonglei Canal, one of the most controversialenvironmental engineering projects in modern Africa. With many of the region's previousgovernmental structures now obliterated by war, this record of the beginnings of civil administrationwill be of immense value to South Sudanese and the new nation of South Sudan.'While some of the detail of the Handbook'will appeal only to very dedicated Sudan experts, the textas a whole has a much wider colonial significance. It replicates, on a grand scale, many of the featuresof the (unpublished) District Books and handing-over notes of other colonial territories. Reading theHandbook reminds one of just how much British administration depended on the collection, collationand even the manufacture of information about the peoples over which it ruled'.The key documentswhich contain the ethnography of administrators and on which historians rely for their analyses aretoo rarely available outside the archives. We all owe a debt to Johnson and the British Academy formaking the handbook available, not merely as a source but also as a memorial to a world whosecontradictions remain even while its substance is fast being overlaid or destroyed by forces moreruthless than amateur ethnographers and ex-military administrators.' Journal of African History Cover illustration: Captain Romilly (Gaweir March 1928) with ?daughter of sword of honourbloke [Chief Guer Wiu]? (Romilly). Sudan Archive Durham University 788/1/28.AFRICA WORLD BOOKSISBN 978-0-9943631-0-7

Author : Harold D. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of Sudan written by Harold D. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social, political, economic and governmental aspects of the Democratic Republic of Sudan.

Author : John Ryle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184701030X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sudan Handbook written by John Ryle and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook offers a concise introduction to all aspects of the country, rooted in a broad historical account of the development of the Sudanese state. --from publisher description

Author : John Ryle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184701030X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sudan Handbook written by John Ryle and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook offers a concise introduction to all aspects of the country, rooted in a broad historical account of the development of the Sudanese state. --from publisher description

Author : Raymond Case Kelly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080564
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuer Conquest written by Raymond Case Kelly and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Nuer expansionism with implications for research into the relationship between social and material causes of change

Author : Øystein H. Rolandsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521116317
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of South Sudan written by Øystein H. Rolandsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country. This book provides a general history of the new country.

Author : James Dempsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission on the Nile written by James Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, translated "are the best of the sacred books of Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Lin Yutang has used the best translations whereverpossible and, in many cases, has made new translations of his own. His new introduction, his collection of parables and sayings, and his glossary of Hindu and Chinese terms are important features of the book."

Author : Martin W. Daly
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900414627X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Empire written by Martin W. Daly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines important and often historic photographs with text to illustrate the value of photographs for the study of modern African history in general and of the Sudan, Africa's largest country and one of its most varied.

Author : Cherry Leonardi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010679
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Government in South Sudan written by Cherry Leonardi and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores various aspects of chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial, postcolonial and military rule, to its current roles and value in the newly independent country. South Sudan became Africa's newest nation in 2011, following decades of armed conflict. Chiefs - or 'traditional authorities' - became a particular focus of attention during the international relief effort and post-war reconstruction and state-building. But 'traditional' authority in South Sudan has been much misunderstood. Institutions of chiefship were created during the colonial period but originated out of a much longer process of dealing with predatory external forces. This book addresses a significant paradox in African studies more widely: if chiefs were the product of colonial states, why have they survived or revived in recent decades? By examining the long-term history ofchiefship in the vicinity of three towns, the book also argues for a new approach to the history of towns in South Sudan. Towns have previously been analysed as the loci of alien state power, yet the book demonstrates that thesegovernment centres formed an expanding urban frontier, on which people actively sought knowledge and resources of the state. Chiefs mediated relations on and across this frontier, and in the process chiefship became central to constituting both the state and local communities. Cherry Leonardi is Senior Lecturer in African History at Durham University, a former course director of the Rift Valley Institute's Sudan course, and a member of the council of the British Institute in Eastern Africa Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.