Nuer dilemmas : coping with money, war, and the state
Sharon E. Hutchinson (Author)
Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology's most celebrated case studies. The author combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, but, more importantly, what is to be gained from a thoroughly historicized treatment of ethnographic materials. The author's work provides a vision for what anthropology has become in the 1990s. Concentrating on Nuer perceptions, experiences, and evaluations of change, the author traces the historical conditions that have led contemporary men and women to reconsider fundamental aspects of their lives
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1996