Nuer prophets : a history of prophecy from the Upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Douglas H. Johnson
1997, 1st paperback edition. Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430419
ISBN: 0198233671
Physical description; xx, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-380) and index. Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, 1994. Contents; pt. I. Prelude. 1. 'The Hammer of the Kujurs': Government, Ethnography, and Nilotic Religions. 2. DENG and Aiwel: Elements of the Prophetic Idiom and Definition of the Moral Community -- pt. II. Prophets. 3. Ngundeng: Prophetic Inspiration on the Eastern Frontier. 4. Deng Laka: A Pragmatic Prophet. 5. Guek Ngundeng and the Minor Prophets: Divinity Dispersed. 6. Dual Diu and the Continuity of a Prophetic Tradition. 7. Prophetic Rivalries in the Western Homeland -- pt. III. Prophecy. 8. Prophetic Traditions in Peace and War. 9. The Life of Prophecy -- App. 1. Nilotic Populations -- App. 2. Nuer Divisions -- App. 3. Nuer Age-Sets. Subjects; 1800-1999. Geschichte 1870-1988. Nuer (African people) Religion. Prophecy History 19th century. Prophecy History 20th century. Prophets Sudan History 19th century. Prophets Sudan History 20th century.
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