Atuot ethnicity
An aspect of Nilotic ethnology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2510180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Burton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 496-507 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1158951 |
| OpenAlex | W2066534385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
Opening ParagraphEvans-Pritchard's assessment of what contemporary social anthropologists might call 'contextual ethnicity' has offered many with no first-hand research experience in this region of Africa a prerogative in which some apparently revel: to opine on the bizarre and the obvious. Examples of the former persuasion are typified by articles which, with a passion for 'theoretical purity', openly declare an indifference to ethnographic fact (Newcomer 1972). Others attempt to account for the present distribution of pastoral Nilotes in the Southern Sudan as though 'tribal' groups and their tract of migration possessed the physical properties of pool balls pelleted across the swampland of the Upper Nile Basin (e.g. Southall 1976). Some must surely have had moment to wonder if the Nuer really exist at all. Of course they do, as even the uninterested tourist could note by observing the ethnic composition of labour groups in Khartoum, but only because so do the Dinka, who live north, south and west of Nuerland
Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Igbo · Kinship · Paragraph · Passion · Political science · Prerogative · Sociology · Wonder · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Social Psychology
Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
Kinship and marriage among the Nuer
Land beyond the Rivers
Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa
Religion and Healing in Mandari
Nuer-English Dictionary
Divinity and Experience
Far Away up the Nile
A History of the Southern Sudan 1839-1889
The Wave is my Mother's Husband
Survey of the Language Groups in the Southern Sudan
Dinka Arrows
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Anuak Politics, Ecology, and the Origins of Shilluk Kingship
Ghosts, Ancestors and Individuals Among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan
Nuer and Dinka Are People
Studies in Social Anthropology
The Dinka and Their Songs
The Nuer Are Dinka
Nuer Time-Reckoning
The Segmentary Lineage
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2014 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |