Governing The Nuer: Documents By Percy Coriat On Nuer History And Ethnography 1922-1931

Winner of the 1995 African Studies Association Text Prize (now the Paul Hair Prize)Percy Coriat was the first Nuer-speaking British official to produce a substantial body of informed and detailed reports on the Nuer. This volume brings together all of his most substantial writings found in Sudanese, South Sudanese and British archives to date, and makes them available for the first time to a wider audience interested in the history and ethnography of the Nuer. These papers give the most comprehensive account yet published of Nuer life in the 1920s, describing the events that preceded and led to Evans-Pritchard's own fieldwork in the 1930s and providing a much-needed historical context for his famous Nuer trilogy.'Appointed at a time when ?character? was thought the important quality in a Sudan Political Service officer, Coriat'was a man of action who recorded what he did, what he saw and what he understood. It is this first hand observation which gives the collection its greatest value as a primary source. Anyone concerned with Nuer ethnography or history will find these documents indispensable and Johnson's introduction and detailed notes provide clear guidance to them.' ? African Affairs

• | Author: Percy Coriat
• | Publisher: Africa World Books Pty Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 099436315X
• | ISBN-13: 9780994363152