Nuer Dilemmas by Alex Hutchinson
Coping with Money, War, and the State
An ethnographic exploration of how a Nilotic pastoralist society in what is now South Sudan navigated the upheavals of the twentieth century, showing how war, state intervention, and market forces transformed values, kinship, and everyday life. It traces tensions between cattle-based moral economies and expanding cash use, reconfigurations of marriage and gender relations, and the moral debates surrounding wealth, violence, and authority. Through historical and contemporary case studies, it reveals how people reinterpret tradition and craft new forms of belonging amid displacement and conflict.
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- 1996
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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