Author: Evans-Pritchard, E.E.
Title: Nuer Religion.
Description: Oxford University Press 1956 1st edition. an earlier edition of isbn 9780198740032. Black cloth boards. 335pp illustrated b/w plates. 8vo. Ownership inscription ffep (Eric Bigalke). edges & eps tanned. VG in G- dustwrapper (spine heavily tanned, loss to lower spine, some paint marks). a nice copy beneath the wrapper. ISBN: 9780198740032 The Nuer are a cattle-herding people dwelling in the swamp and savannah areas of southern Sudan. A study of primitive religion of interest to students of theology, comparative religion, Old Testament and related study disciplines. Noted that this study examines in some detail the Nuer concept of spirit. Completes the author's trilogy of works about these peoples ('The Nuer, A description ...' 1940, and 'Kinship & Marriage...' 1951) begun in 1930.

Keywords: north africa religon nuer nilotic southern sudan


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