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The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

E. E. Evans-Pritchard · Clarendon Press · 1940

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E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedFortes and Evans-Pritchard distinguished African societies with centralised authority, administrative machinery and judicial institutions from societies lacking them, in which order rested on a balance between lineage segments.