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Title A tribal survey of Mongalla Province / edited by L.F. Nalder
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; 51
African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; 51.
Contents Part 1: General and Comparative -- 1. Geographical -- 2. The Tribal Groups -- 3. Tribal Structure -- 4. Religious Beliefs -- 5. Crime and Punishment -- 6. Individual Life -- 7. Economic Life -- 8. Vital Statistics -- 9. Impact and Change -- Part 2: Individual Tribes -- 1. Nilo-Hamitic Group -- 2. Other Tribes of Eastern Mongalla -- 3. Tribes of the Abyssinian Frontier -- 4. Moru-Madi Group -- 5. Western Bari-Speaking Group -- 6. Miscelleaneous
Summary This book describes and compares the tribes of the Mongalla Province in what is now South Sudan. In the second part of the book some 27 individual tribes are discussed in detail, and topics such as linguistics, culture, tribal structure, religious beliefs, crime and punishment, marriage, birth, burial and economic and agricultural life are also covered
Notes Originally published in 1937 by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute
Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 22, 2018)
Subject Ethnology -- South Sudan.
Folklore -- South Sudan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Ethnology
Folklore
Language and languages
SUBJECT Mongalla (South Sudan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009050623
South Sudan -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011004398
Subject South Sudan
Form Electronic book
Author Nalder, Leonard Fielding, 1888- editor.
ISBN 9780429487279
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