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Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report of Peoples & Government in the Southern Sudan, 1931

ISBN13: 9780197261460
ISBN10: 0197261469
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This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces, at the end of 1930, provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life by some of the first British officials to become conversant in the languages of the Dinka, Nuer and Shilluk - at a time when Evans-Pritchard's field-work had only just begun.

This report on the Upper Nile Province was compiled by its governor, Charles Willis, midway through the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. It includes documentation on the origins of the Jonglei Canal, one of the most controversial environmental engineering projects in modern Africa.

With almost all traces of previous governmental structures now obliterated by war, this record of the beginnings of civil administration will be of immense value.

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This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life by some of the first British officials to become conversant in the languages of Dinka, Nuer and Shilluk - at a time when Evans-Pritchard's field- work had only just begun.

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: Ken, September 11, 2006 (view all comments by Ken)
This is a very comprehensive and clearly written volume of the British administration of the southern Sudan in the early twentieth century. Although colonialism has received a bad press in the interim, it is obvious from the information presented here that the British were engaged in a very difficult attempt to bring the primitive tribal peoples into the modern world. It is apparent that these people were not prepared for the premature state of independence demanded by the more advanced northern Sudanese in Khartoum, and the almost constant state of civil war between the north and the south since that time simply confirms the stated beliefs of the British engaged in the modernizing process.
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ISBN:: 9780197261460
Subtitle:: A Report of Peoples and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1931
Publisher:: Oxford University Press, USA
Author:: C. A. Willis
Author:: Johnson, Douglas H.
Location:: Oxford ;
Subject:: Africa
Subject:: History, World | Africa
Edition Description:: Bibliography: p. 437-447.
Series:: Oriental and African Archives
Series Volume:: No. 3
Publication Date:: 19960523
Binding:: Hardback
Grade Level:: College/higher education:
Illustrations:: 14 halftones, 3 maps
Pages:: 504
Dimensions:: 9.56 x 6.5 x 1.385 in 1.926 lb

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