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Beschreibung
Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them "blood memories" in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, "has no history." Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. Beswick demonstrates how early pre-colonial stresses play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself.
Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them "blood memories" in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, "has no history." Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. Beswick demonstrates how early pre-colonial stresses play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself.
Über den Autor
Stephanie Beswick
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Geography and Brief History of Sudan
The Changing Nilotic Frontier
Slave Raids, Wars, and Migrations
Communities of the Sobat/Nile Confluence: The Padang
Communities of the Eastern Nile: The Bor
Communities in the Southwest: The Southern Bahr el-Ghazal
Communities in the Northwest: The Northern Bahr el-Ghazal
Grain, Cattle, and Economic Power
Totemic Religion
Human Sacrifice, Virgins, and River Spirits
Priests, Politics, and Land
Ethnic Expansion by Marriage
Sovereign Nations within the Dinka
Eighteenth-Century Slavers and Traders
Nilotic Chaos: Dinka, Nuer, Atwot, and Anyuak
Politics and Stratification among Stateless Peoples
Summary and History
Legacy of the Precolonial Era
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781580462310
ISBN-10: 1580462316
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beswick, Stephanie
Hersteller: University of Rochester Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Stephanie Beswick
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2006
Gewicht: 0,449 kg
Artikel-ID: 122054491