| A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: Volume 2: And Some Account of the People Who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr Contributor(s): Macmichael, H. A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511696949 ISBN-13: 9780511696947 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Middle East - Egypt (see Also Ancient - Egypt) |
| Dewey: 962.4 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: H. A. MacMichael was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933. This two-volume work, first published in 1922, is the culmination of almost twenty years' ethnological research conducted while MacMichael was stationed in various parts of Sudan. This ethnography provides detailed histories of the origins, movements and degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan based on oral histories gained from interviews with local people, and on Sudanese genealogical records known as 'nisbas'. These records provide a valuable insight into the construction and fluidity of ethnic identity at a local and regional level, and have been widely used as a basis for subsequent investigations concerning identity in Sudan. Volume 2 contains translations of nisbas with an analysis of their relation to ethnic identities. This book contains opinions on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was first published. |