Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State

by Sharon E. Hutchinson

Book Overview

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. Now Sharon Hutchinson 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520202848
• ISBN13: 9780520202849
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"