Sudan's Blood Memory - The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan

A history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present.

List of contents

Introduction
Geography and Brief History of Sudan
The Changing Nilotic Frontier
Slave Raids, Wars, and Migrations
Communities of the Sobat/Nile Confluence: The Padang
Communities of 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

About the author

Stephanie Beswick

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Beswick
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2006
• EAN: 9781580462310
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-231-0
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 428 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous