A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province

by L. F. Nalder (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1937, this book describes and compares the tribes of the Mongalla Province in what is now South Sudan. In the second part of the book some 27 individual tribes are discussed in detail, and topics such as linguistics, culture, tribal structure, religious beliefs, crime and punishment, marriage, birth, burial and economic and agricultural life are also covered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138596931
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2018
Series:	African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

L. F. Nalder

Table of Contents

Part 1: General and Comparative 1. Geographical 2. The Tribal Groups 3. Tribal Structure 4. Religious Beliefs 5. Crime and Punishment 6. Individual Life 7. Economic Life 8. Vital Statistics 9. Impact and Change Part 2: Individual Tribes 1. Nilo-Hamitic Group 2. Other Tribes of Eastern Mongalla 3. Tribes of the Abyssinian Frontier 4. Moru-Madi Group 5. Western Bari-Speaking Group 6. Miscelleaneous