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Title: | An acephalous political system: the Nuer |
Author: | Mair, L. |
Book title: | African societies |
Year: | 1974 |
Pages: | 123-136 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subject: | Nuer |
Abstract: | Based on: 'The Nuer' by E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1940); and 'A manual of Nuer law', D.P. Howell (1954). The Nuer live in the southern Sudan. This chapter describes the maintenance of law and order by self-help and feud. |