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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.