Nuer Dilemmas Coping with Money, War, and the State

Name: Nuer Dilemmas Coping with Money, War, and the State
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ISBN: 9780520202849

ISBN-10: 0520202848

ISBN-13: 9780520202849

Edition: 1997

Authors: Sharon E. Hutchinson

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Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology's most celebrated case studies. Now Sharon Hutchinson combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, but, more importantly, what is to be gained from a thoroughly historicized treatment of ethnographic materials. Hutchinson's work provides a vision for what anthropology has become in the 1990s. Concentrating on Nuer perceptions, experiences, and evaluations of change, Hutchinson traces the historical conditions that…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/31/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on the Nuer Language


Prologue



Orientations



Blood, Cattle, and Cash: The Commodification of Nuer Values



Guns, Warfare, and the State: New Contexts of Power, Violence, and Leadership



Cattle Over Blood: The Changing Symbolism of Gender, Marriage, and Filiation



"Incest Is Blood and the Cow": Struggles Over the Control of Reproduction



The Emergence of Bull-Boys: Political Leadership, Legitimacy, and Male Initiation



"Cattle Aren't Killed for Nothing": Christianity, Conversion, and the Enduring Importance of Prophets


Afterword


Appendix: Comparative Divorce Rates among the Nuer, 1936-83


Bibliography


Index


About the author