Aufsatz(elektronisch)#1September 1982
Nilotic Women: a Diachronic Perspective
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 467-491
ISSN: 1469-7777
The pastoral Nilotic-speaking peoples of the Southern Sudan have been observed by missionaries, merchants, and casual travellers for more than a century. Significant advances in social theory have been formulated on the basis of Nilotic ethnography. In the light of the voluminous literature recorded by these and other authorities, it may now be of value to draw into clearer relief the nature of the status and authority of the women in these 'traditional' societies, which are increasingly drawn into and irrevocably changed by exogenous sources.