Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer (Clarendon Paperbacks)
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Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's classic writings on the Nuer of southern Sudan have made them one of the most famous peoples in ethnographic literature. When the writings were first published half a century ago, they created a new agenda for social anthropology. Kinship and Marriage among theNuer is the second of his trilogy on the society and culture of this pastoral people. It vividly portrays the experience of growing up in a Nuer community, describing daily life, marriage, sex, death, and birth. It also makes clear the essential difference between the discourse of politicalassociation and that of kinship, and shows the part played by the kinship system in Nuer society as a whole. Now published for the first time in paperback, this edition has a substantial introduction by Wendy James in which she assesses the importance of Evans-Pritchard's work and places it in thecontext of recent developments in social anthropology.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198231040
ISBN13:9780198231042
Release Date:December 1951
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:196 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"
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