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ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA

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Volume 4

THE NILOTES OF THE
SUDAN AND UGANDA

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THE NILOTES OF THE
SUDAN AND UGANDA

East Central Africa
Part IV

AUDREY BUTT

First published in 1952 by the International African Institute. Reprinted (unrevised) with supplementary bibliography 1964.

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1952, 1964 International African Institute

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ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA
EDITED BY DARYLL FORDE

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EAST CENTRAL AFRICA
PART IV

THE NILOTES
OF THE
SUDAN AND UGANDA

by

AUDREY BUTT

INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE
LONDON

This study is one part of the Ethnographic Survey of Africa which the International African Institute is preparing with the aid of a grant made by the Secretary of State under the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts, on the recommendation of the Colonial Social Science Research Council

First published 1952
Reprinted (unrevised) with
supplementary bibliography 1964

REPRINTED IN ENGLAND BY
STONE & COX LTD.
LONDON AND WATFORD.

ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA

FOREWORD

The preparation of a comprehensive survey of the tribal societies of Africa was discussed by the Executive Council of the Institute as far back as 1937, but the interruption and restricting of its activities caused by the war resulted in the postponement of the project. Events and developments during recent years, however, have led to a wider recognition of the need for collating and making more generally available the wealth of existing but uncoordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples, particularly in connection with plans for economic and social development. Moreover, it appeared that the International African Institute, as an international body which has received support from and performed services for the different Colonial governments, was in a very favourable situation for undertaking such a task.

The Institute, therefore, in 1944 worked out a scheme for the preparation of an Ethnographic Survey of Africa. A committee, under the chairmanship of Professor Hadcliffe-Brown, was appointed to consider the scope and form of the Survey (the Editors name appears on each volume) and collaboration was established with research institutions in South Africa, Rhodesia, East Africa, French West Africa, Belgium and the Belgian Congo. In addition to a grant from the British Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, awarded on the reconmendation of the Colonial Science Research Council, the Institute has received a grant from the Government of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to assist in the preparation and publication of sections relevant to that territory, and this assistance is gratefully acknowledged in connection with the present study.

The aim of the Ethnographic Survey is to present a concise, critical, and accurate account of our present knowledge of the tribal groupings, distribution, physical environment, social conditions, political and economic structure, religious beliefs and cult practices, technology and art of the African peoples. The material is to be presented as briefly and on as consistent a plan as possible, and the text will be supplemented by maps and comprehensive bibliographies.

The Ethnographic Survey is being published as a series of separate, self-contained studies, each devoted to one particular people or cluster of peoples. It is hoped that publication in this form will make the results more quickly and readily available to those interested in specific areas or groups. A list of the sections which have already appeared is given on the cover of this volume.

Since the unequal value and the generally unsystematic nature of the available information constituted a chief reason for undertaking this survey, it will be obvious that the material here presented can make no claim to be complete or definitive. Every effort has been made, however, to scrutinise all available literature and to check it by reference to unpublished sources and to workers actually in the field; thus it is intended to present a clear picture of our existing knowledge and to point out the directions in which the need for further studies is most pressing. Any assistance from those who are in a position to remedy deficiencies and correct inaccuracies by providing supplementary material will be greatly appreciated.

The International African Institute expresses its thanks to the many scholars, research workers, administrative officers and missionaries in Europe and Africa who have generously responded to our requests for information, and who have spared time to correct and supplement drafts. Personal communications are acknowledged in footnotes. Our thanks are especially due to Professor Evans-Pritchard for assistance in supervising the work on this section of the Survey and for providing his bibliography of the Nilotes.

DARYLL FORDE,
Director.

Acknowledgements

Ethnological and social anthropological studies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and in East Africa generally have been built up over the last fifty years by a number of eminent scholars and contributors from other professions. In writing this survey I have been greatly indebted to them all. In particular, I wish to thank Professor E.E. Evans-Pritchard under whose guidance this survey has been written, and whose numerous and excellent studies of the Nilotic peoples have been freely drawn upon. His bibliography of the most important works on the Nilotes in here published for the first time. I also wish to thank Mlle. Boone, Mr. Breugelmans and Mr. Jansen-Smith for advance information on official population figures and for other unpublished material incorporated in this study.

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