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Title: | Culture Conflict in Sudan |
Author: | Critchfield, Richard |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Africa Report |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | March-April |
Pages: | 46-49 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | rainmaking change Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government |
Abstract: | To increase food production in the isolated Nuba Mountains means 'modernizing' a traditional culture that has survived remarkably intact to this day. At the center of this culture stands the kudjur, a rainmaker, soothsayer, medicine man, priest and social leader. The author, who lived for five weeks with a kudjur and his family, describes why the government wants to reduce the influence of the kudjurs. According to him the nowadays kudjurs are the link between the comforting supernaturalism of the past to those still dispossessed of the scientific benefits of tomorrow. Photographs. |