Author: Evans-Pritchard, E.E.
Title: Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer.
Description: Oxford University Press 1969 reprint. an earlier edition of isbn 9780198231042. Blue cloth boards. 183pp illustrated 8vo. Ffep excised. else G+ in dustwrapper (tanned, worn, minor loss at head & tail of spine). under the dustwrapper looks an attractive copy still. ISBN: 9780198231042 Second volume of this anthropological trilogy. Details the rules of regulating marriage, courtship, the making of marriage unions by performance of ceremonies and payments of cattle, and the diverse forms of marriage found among the Nuer. Then gives an account of family life brought about by marriage, also of the kinship system which derives from the family, showing the part played by this system in Nuer society as a whole.

Keywords: social anthropology nuer nile southern sudan


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