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The Wave is My Mother's Husband: A Piscatorial Theme in Pastoral Nilotic Ethnology

The Wave is My Mother's Husband: A Piscatorial Theme in Pastoral Nilotic Ethnology The Wave is My Mother's Husband: A Piscatorial Theme in Pastoral Nilotic Ethnology JOHN W. BURTON Wheaton College, Norton, U. S.A. In some parts of Dinkaland giraffes have not been seen for many years, and there are members of this clan with giraffe as their divinity who have never seen a giraffe...An old man of the clan Pareng...told me that another clan divinity, Arec, was 'a tiny thing in the river which men never saw'. (Lienhardt 1961: 107-8) THIS ESSAY is concerned with two distinct yet closely related pro- bless, The first involves the nature of traditional political organization and the symbolism of power among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan, a people who were fairly much unknown in the ethnographic literature prior to my own research.2 The data presented in the course of this discussion invite comparison with descriptions of the Nuer and Dinka, peoples with whom Atuot share their closest linguistic and cultural affinities. The second problem is much less a consideration of ethnographic fact than a measured degree of speculation set within an ethnographic present some hundreds of years past. The unifying theme of the essay is oriented toward an understanding of the symbolism associated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1979 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852179X00024
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The Wave is My Mother's Husband: A Piscatorial Theme in Pastoral Nilotic Ethnology JOHN W. BURTON Wheaton College, Norton, U. S.A. In some parts of Dinkaland giraffes have not been seen for many years, and there are members of this clan with giraffe as their divinity who have never seen a giraffe...An old man of the clan Pareng...told me that another clan divinity, Arec, was 'a tiny thing in the river which men never saw'. (Lienhardt 1961: 107-8) THIS ESSAY is concerned with two distinct yet closely related pro- bless, The first involves the nature of traditional political organization and the symbolism of power among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan, a people who were fairly much unknown in the ethnographic literature prior to my own research.2 The data presented in the course of this discussion invite comparison with descriptions of the Nuer and Dinka, peoples with whom Atuot share their closest linguistic and cultural affinities. The second problem is much less a consideration of ethnographic fact than a measured degree of speculation set within an ethnographic present some hundreds of years past. The unifying theme of the essay is oriented toward an understanding of the symbolism associated

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1979

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