Illustrated record of Sudanese national costumes
Griselda El-Tayib, Khartoum (Degree granting institution), Institute of African and Asian studies (Degree granting institution)
This dissertation attempts to put on record details of indigenous costumes worn by Sudanese, in North, East and Central Riverain Sudan, during the first half of this century before radical political and social changed introduced an irreversible trend towards westernisation. Chapter I attempts to sketch in the historical background to the development of costume in Nubia and in the rest of the Nile Valley as far as Sennar. In Chapter II special attention is paid to the jar-jāra of the Nubians as this regional costume is most drastically threatened with extinction due to the diaspora of the Nubians following their displacement and resettlement in 1962. Chapter III features the Rashaida people as being a minority group with a separate cultural and ethnic identity which is preserved intact and not altered or affected by their neighbours. Three separate Bija groups are described in Chapter IV as being at three different stages ad degrees of settlement and the consequent effect on constume development. Chapter V deals with material available on the Riverain Sudan, divided into three parts. Part I deals with background conditions and basic materials, Part II deals with men's dress and Part III with women's dress. This Chapter is likely to stir the most controversy for it covers a densely populated area and generalisations are likely to provoke claims of difference which do undoubtedly exist within this large and rather vaguely defined area. The final chapter of Conclusions also attempts to speculate on ideas of future trends. It is not possible to draw hard and fast conclusions about such a dynamic aspect of material culture as costume. The text is accompanied by a separate volume of detailed drawings, illustrating some of points of the text
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1976
[s.n.], [S.l.], 1976