Lewis, Bazett  A: The Murle: Red Chiefs and Black Commoners (Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology)

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Lewis, Bazett A : The Murle: Red Chiefs and Black Commoners (Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972

Hardback, first edition, 215 x 137mm, very good condition, no dust-jacket, publisher's original black clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, 166 pages including index, b/w line illustrations, fold-out b/w family chart-------------The Murle are a small tribe of some 18,000 - 20,000 people inhabiting about 10,700 square miles of territory in the Pibor District of the Southern Sudan. Most of their lands lie in the Lotilla valley, although th Hills Murle live on the Maruwa hills to the south-east, and the Boma plateau. This is the first book on one of the Nilo Hamitic peoples of the Sudan and provides interesting points for comparison with studies of the Nilo-Hamites of Kenya and Uganda. It includes an account of Murle history and way of life, and a descriptive analysis of social and political institutions. This book fills a big gap in the ethnography of the Southern Sudan and it is very unlikely that the author's research can ever be repeated. The author died while revising the book

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