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The meaning of Dwarfs in Nilotic scenes
2006This chapter focuses on the meaning of dwarfs in Nilotic scenes from the Roman world since this subject may be of wider importance for the understanding of the Roman views on Egypt and the Egyptians. Nilotic scenes in the Roman world are more or less realistic pictures of Egypt at the time of the annual flooding of the Nile, and may show the rejoicing ...
Paul G.P. Meyboom, Miguel John Versluys
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Pastoral Nilotes and British Colonialism
Ethnohistory, 1981The pastoral Nilotic-speaking Atuot of the Southern Sudan, as well as their neighbors, the Nuer and Dinka, responded to the two phases of British colonial rule in the Southern Sudan in two rather different ways. This essay examines the nature of these responses, first to a general lack of administrative policy and then to a policy which could be ...
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Tone and the Nilotic case system
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1974In a number of Nilotic languages spoken in East Africa it has been shown that there exists formal marking of case based exclusively on tonal differentiation. This has been fully described in Maasai (Tucker and Mpaayei, 1955) and all investigated Kalenjin dialects (Tucker and Bryan, 1962. 1964–5).
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“We see a similarity between the Dinka and the ancient culture of Egyptians.” Samuel Bulen Alier, a Bor-Atoc Dinka artist Archaeological studies strongly suggest that the most populous Nilotic culture of present South Sudan, the Dinka, did not arrive in the region until the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries.
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“We see a similarity between the Dinka and the ancient culture of Egyptians.” Samuel Bulen Alier, a Bor-Atoc Dinka artist Archaeological studies strongly suggest that the most populous Nilotic culture of present South Sudan, the Dinka, did not arrive in the region until the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries.
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Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
Nature, 1933THIS book is the second to be published in a series of works on the ethnology of Africa edited by Mr. J. H. Driberg and Dr. I. Schapera. In his introduction to the book, Sir Harold Mac-Michael, Civil Secretary to the Sudan Government, points out that though a good deal has been written at one time or another concerning various tribes inhabiting the ...
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Serology and the History of the Northern Nilotes
The Journal of African History, 1962It frequently happens that the only information available on interrelationships and former movements of African peoples lies in their oral traditions and myths. In the myths it is difficult to disentangle symbolic from historical events and personalities, while, fascinating though it is to listen to an old man recounting the movements of his ‘ancestors’
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Nilotic Lakes of the Western Rift
2009The nilotic lakes associated with the Western Rift are separated from the more southerly lakes Kivu and Tanganyika by the Virunga volcanoes. They include three small lakes in the Kigezi highlands, and three large lakes, George, Edward and Albert in the valley.
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Nilotic Kings and their Mothers' Kin
Africa, 1955Opening ParagraphThis paper offers an interpretation of some details of the myth and custom of two Nilotic tribes, the Shilluk and the Anuak of the Southern Sudan. Each of these tribes has a noble or royal clan in a centrally important position in its political system, and the royal myths of both tell of the founding of kingship.
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