ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arab Labor, Bsc Young Boys, The Strongest
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Fifty years after e-p completed his ethnographic study of the nuer, the american anthropologist. Sharon hutchinson went to nuerland, in the southern sudan, to conduct ethnographic research. In the opening passage of her ethnography, nuer dilemmas: coping with money, war, and the. What has changed: the previously egalitarian society has a chief, taxes are paid: a form of state is recognized, cattle are auctioned: cattle viewed as a commodity, sold in trade. All of these things absolutely were inconceivable when e-p worked and walked among the nuer in the early 1930s. The sudan declared independence from egypt and england in 1956, but civil war broke out and began a year earlier between north and south. During colonial rule, the north and south had been governed differently, and after. Independence, racialized and religious categories were used to separate the two. North was arabic and muslim; the south was christian or animist and black.
