The Dinka and the Nuer have hated each other for as long as anyone can remember. They fight over land‚ and will even kill each other. They also steal cows from each other. Both tribes have many things in common‚ this is why they are in conflict. The Nuer and the Dinka both honor their cattle‚ and see them as a sign of wealth. They both live in the same area and use the same resources. Both tribes follow the same culture. The Nuer and the Dinka both honor their cattle. For example in source C it states
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The Nuer The Nuer people are pastoral people who live on flood plains‚ they herd cattle’s and gather corn grain‚ and tobacco‚ and they also hunt for fish. The young men learn to care for the cattle while they are very young‚ this will be their life’s work so they must learn to do it well‚ when the plains flood the young men and women must take the cattle to a temporary camps where they take care of them and in the evenings the men smoke fresh tobacco they harvested and dance and sing behind their
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Pritchard’s analysis of the Nuer is an impressive in-depth study of the people and their social/political institutions during the late 1920’s‚ that allows us to better understand their way of life. Other theorist’s emphasis on change allows us to both understand African history and
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He was the leader of the “lost boys of Sudan”. He inspires people that if you believe‚ you can do it. This part of the story takes place in 1980’s. Nya is a Historic fictional character she is set in the 2000’s and is a Nuer. Her job is to watch siblings and get water for the family. She is scared of the Dinka tribe killing her or her family. Hope is a feeling that his father still alive and will find him. Perseverance is to never to give up and have hope. In the novel
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The Nuer - Cattle and Kinship in the Sudan Directions: Read the chapter‚ print and answer all the questions prior to coming to class. You are required to submit your answers to all of the questions as part of your participation grade. Be prepared to present your assigned group’s answers to class‚ which is based on the number assigned to you on the Attendance Sheet and the corresponding numbered section of questions below. Discussion Group 5‚ present questions 1 - 9: (1) The Nuer live where?
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This is how the Nuer feel when then go to the United States from Sudan for more freedom. Sure the United States may have more opportunities for a better life than Sudan‚ but it comes with a lot of life-changing events and challenges that the Nuer must face daily. In Nuer Journeys Nuer Lives‚ Jon Holtzman discusses the challenges the Nuer face and how they overcome them once they have been kicked out of their homes and immigrate to Minnesota in the United States. The journey of the Nuer to the United
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In Evans-Pritchard’s‚ The Nuer‚ the text is an examination of the political structure of a society that is seemingly without political institutions‚ in simpler terms‚ how they maintain order (Evans-Pritchard 1940:4). In order to understand the political realities of their society‚ the author‚ explores other questions about Nuer life‚ such as: how they subsist‚ interact with their environment‚ as well as noting how the Nuer identify kinship patterns among themselves. The following essay seeks to summarize
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Marriage and Kinship of the Nuer People The Nuer is a tribe of people located along the Eastern banks of the Nile River in Southern Su dan. Traditionally‚ the Nuer’s most prominent possession is their cattle. It is essential to their society to the point they are willing to die fighting for their cattle. Much prestige and status is determined by the quantity and quality of the cattle one owns. It can be better understood by the way the Nuer will often take the name of their favorite cattle or
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This essay will explore how social and economic equality is maintained in the tribal societies in East Africa (also referred to as cattle people) by examining the different factors which contribute to this equality. The main focus will be on the Nuer culture‚ while Maasai culture is also used in explaining the age-set system. I will begin by looking into the environmental factors that influence the East African cultures‚ followed by studying the distribution and importance of cattle and their political
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child. After Tiv women give birth to a child‚ the mother is marked with a scar on her abdomen in order to represent womanhood. This practice reminded me of the right of passage with the Nuer. At puberty‚ the young Nuer men receive facial markings called ghar marks that scar a boy’s forehead (Class Film Clip: “Nuer”). Nuer women‚ on the other hand‚ celebrate a woman’s adulthood when a women gets married‚ yet they do not have a scarification for doing so. While scars symbolize a right of passage or represent
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