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010 $a 2003016697
020 $a1580461514 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm52766167
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050 00 $aDT159.6.S73$bB47 2004
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100 1 $aBeswick, Stephanie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98080708
245 10 $aSudan's blood memory :$bthe legacy of war, ethnicity, and slavery in early south Sudan /$cStephanie Beswick.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bUniversity of Rochester Press,$c2004.
300 $axxx, 277 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aRochester studies in African history and the diaspora,$x1092-5228 ;$vv. 16
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$tGeography and Brief History of Sudan --$g3.$tThe Changing Nilotic Frontier --$g4.$tSlave Raids, Wars, and Migrations --$g5.$tCommunities of the Sobat/Nile Confluence: The Padang --$g6.$tCommunities on the Eastern Nile: The Bor --$g7.$tCommunities in the Southwest: The Southern Bahr el-Ghazal --$g8.$tCommunities in the Northwest: The Northern Bahr el-Ghazal --$g9.$tGrain, Cattle, and Economic Power --$g10.$tTotemic Religion --$g11.$tHuman Sacrifice, Virgins, and River Spirits --$g12.$tPriests, Politics, and Land --$g13.$tEthnic Expansion by Marriage --$g14.$tSovereign Nations within the Dinka --$g15.$tEighteenth-Century Slavers and Traders --$g16.$tNilotic Chaos: Dinka, Nuer, Atwor, and Anyuak --$g17.$tPolitics and Stratification among Stateless Peoples --$g18.$tSummary and History --$g19.$tLegacy of the Precolonial Era.
520 1 $a"This book shows how the modern-day Sudan has been haunted by the distant past and presents the voices of two hundred peoples of South Sudan, a region which according to some "has no history." Many societies, worldwide, particularly those which have been non-literate, possess oral histories reaching back many centuries. They possess long memories, especially about wars and events of great trauma. Labeled "blood memories" in this book, the author presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan. Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. The book demonstrates how fierce wars, ethnic struggles and expansion shaped the "inner" history of the South today. External slave trades by Muslim cattle nomads from West Africa, the Baggara, further shaped the socio-political and military culture of the region. The book ends at the dawning of the Egyptian colonial era in 1821. Then, by way of an epilogue, it demonstrates how these earlier pre-colonial stresses have come to play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, presently fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aSouth Sudan$xHistory.
651 0 $aSouth Sudan$xEthnic relations$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlavery$zSouth Sudan$xHistory.
830 0 $aRochester studies in African history and the diaspora ;$vv. 16.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97052711
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003016697.html
852 0 $bleh$hDT159.6.S73$iB47 2004
852 00 $bbar$hDT159.6.S73$iB47 2004