Social assimilation and changing identity in the Southern Funj

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Title:	Social assimilation and changing identity in the Southern Funj
Author:	James, W.R.
Book title:	Sudan in Africa: studies presented
Year:	1971
Pages:	197-211
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	urban society acculturation
Abstract:	Particular claims to identity and origin are functions of a social situation and are best reated by the historian in the first instance as fiction rather than fact. This paper considers of the southern Funj region in this light. The area was strongly parochial in character, today it is becoming part of the wider national social situation. The local people are assimilating the values of the dominant culture and giving themselves the most advantageous personal position in terms of those values. Map, notes.