White Nile Arabs - Political Leadership and Economic Change Volume 53

White Nile Arabs

List of contents

INTRODUCTION, 1. THE TERRITORIAL AND TRIBAL SETTING: THE PRE-DAM ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK AND TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION, 2. THE GENEALOGICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: SOME ASPECTS OF LINEAGE, CORPORATENESS AND SOLIDARITY IN THE PRE-DAM PERIOD, 3. THE TRADITIONAL SOURCES OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND POWER: THE UMMAR LEADERSHIP, 4. TRIBAL HISTORY AND POLITICS IN THE PRE-DAM PERIOD, 5. THE DAM: THE CHANGING ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY, 6. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION UNDER AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT, 7. THE STRUCTURE OF THE LINEAGE IN THE POST-DAM PERIOD, 8. ADMINISTRATION AND TRIBAL POLITICS IN THE POST-DAM PERIOD (1937-69), 9. CONCLUSION, APPENDICES, LIST OF WORKS CITED, GLOSSARY, INDEX

About the author

Abbas Ahmed Mohamed

Summary

This book is an account of the changing social and political structure of the Hassaniya and Hissinat, two Sudanese Arabic speaking tribes inhabiting the northern part of the White Nile Province in the Sudan. The account is based on field research over 15 months, between June 1969 and November 1970, among these groups.

Product details

• Authors: Abbas Mohamed, Abbas Ahmed Mohamed
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367717254
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71725-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General