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Title: | Nilotic Women: A Diachronic Perspective |
Author: | Burton, John W. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 467-491 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | traditional society women Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160528 |
Abstract: | In the light of the voluminous literature, recorded by missionaries, merchants, and casual travellers, the nature of the status and authority of Nilotic women is drawn into clearer relief. The first section of this article offers a review of what appears in the contemporary view as antiquarian images of Nilotic women. The second section gives a brief analysis of the colonial period and a summary of the effects of British administration in this region of Africa. The third section is concerned with the indigenous images of women in Nilotic mythology. The article concludes with an assessment of women, marriage, and power, with special reference to the pastoral Nilotic Atuot, among whom the author resided between October 1976 and November 1977. Throughout the discussion, however, the author's concern is with the Dinka, Nuer, and Atuot, since relatively little has been recorded on this score for the related Shilluk, Anuak, and so-called Luo. Notes. |