The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan [electronic resource] / E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
This description of the political system of the Anuak is part of the results of two expeditions by the author to East Africa in 1940. Although Anuak country had been visited in 1855 by the Maltese Andrea Debono and Philippe Terranuova D'Antonio and by several other European travellers thirty to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st. |
| Series: | Monographs on social anthropology ;
no. 4. |
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| Summary: | This description of the political system of the Anuak is part of the results of two expeditions by the author to East Africa in 1940. Although Anuak country had been visited in 1855 by the Maltese Andrea Debono and Philippe Terranuova D'Antonio and by several other European travellers thirty to forty years ago, the Italian Bottego (1897),the French missions under De Bonchamps (1897) and Faivre {1898),Wellby (l899), Austin (1900), the German Oscar Neumann (1901), and the MacMillan Expedition (1904),practically nothing was known about the Anuak when the Government of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan began to administer the whole of their country in 1921, this book seeks to change that. |
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| Item Description: | CHAPTER I SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER II THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHAPTER III THE NOBLES CHAPTER IV ·TRANSMISSION OF THE ROYAL EMBLEMS CHAPTER V THE POSITION OF NOBLES IN THEIR VILLAGES. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781000323504 1000323501 9781003135395 1003135390 9781000321814 1000321819 9781000325294 1000325296 |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | E. E. Evans-Pritchard. E. E. Evans-Pritchard |