Kwanim Pa. The Making of the Uduk People
An Ethnographic Study of Survival in the Sudan-Ethiopian Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12005906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles W Mcclellan (corresponding author), Wendy James (0009-0002-0753-3056) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 132-132 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/218472 |
| OpenAlex | W2326481617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Account of the Uduk people of the Sudan, their subsistence, kinship and settlement patterns, population history and migrations. Repeated reference is made to selected aspects of myth, symbol and cult, and to the Gurunya ritual which is devoted to the saving of'foundling' children. In this way the author has tried to explore the nature of the link between past and present in Uduk society. Besides externally demonstrable links between the hisorical record of devastation and the main features of Uduk communities today, there are also inner connections between the past experience of the people, their digested memory of that experience, and the way in which they represent themselves, the'kwanin pa, as still a'foundling people' who have survived the repeated destruction of their former world and are putting together a new. This self-image is the key to understanding present-day Uduk economic, political, and kinship institutions and behaviour
Ancient history · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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Wendy Rosalind James (1940-2024)
Lambek and His Teachers
The cosmopolitan borderland
From “Subject to Citizen”? History, Identity and Minority Citizenship
Crow-Omaha Kinship
The Dats'in
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan
Placing the unborn
The Southern Funj of the Sudan as a Frontier Society, 1820-1980
Subaltern Debris
Para onde foram os bebês? Em busca de uma Antropologia de bebês (e de seus cuidadores)
Where Have All The Babies Gone
"Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?" Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
Ingessana and the Legacy of the Funj Sultanate
In Sudan’s Eastern Borderland
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |