Sudan's blood memory : the legacy of war, ethnicity, and slavery in early South Sudan / Stephanie Beswick

Publication | Library Call Number: DT159.6.S73 B47 2004

Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 17
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 17.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Beswick, Stephanie.
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents

Physical Description: xxx, 277 p. : maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Geography and brief history of Sudan
The changing Nilotic frontier
Slave raids, wars, and migrations
Communities of the Sobat/Nile confluence : the Padang
Communities on 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.
ISBN: 1580461514
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index.
Subjects: South Sudan--History.
South Sudan--Ethnic relations--History.
Slavery--Sudan--Southern Region--History.
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