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Title: | Anuak Village Headmen |
Author: | Lienhardt, Godfrey |
Year: | 1957 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute (ISSN 0001-9720) |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 341-354 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Ethiopia |
Subjects: | rural population traditional rulers Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1156216 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1156571 |
Abstract: | The Anuak are a Nilotic people of the South-east of the Sudan and adjacent Ethiopia. They may number between 30.000 and 40.000 people of whom at least two thirds live in Ethiopia. Two somewhat different systems of rule and leadership are found in their villages. In the south-east several ecological and other circumstances have favoured the spread of the influence of a noble clan, members of which reign in villages, which according to tradition, were at one time politically isolated from each other and autonomous under local headmen. It seems that the influence of this noble clan has spread and is even now spreading farther, though in the land as a whole most villages are still under the sway of headmen chosen from lineages which traditionally provided them. It is with the organization of these villages, and the way in which their members change their headmen, that this paper deals. (Based on research carried out during the period 1952-54). |