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Title: | Responsible man: the Atmaan Beja of North-eastern Sudan |
Authors: | Hjort af Ornäs, Anders Dahl, Gudrun |
Year: | 1991 |
Issue: | 27 |
Pages: | 193 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Stockholm studies in social anthropology (ISSN 0347-0830) |
City of publisher: | Stockholm |
Publisher: | Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm |
ISBN: | 9171469052 |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subject: | Beja |
Abstract: | This study is based on fieldwork carried out in Red Sea Province, northeastern Sudan, in 1980 and 1986/1987 among the Beja, more specifically, among the Atmaan-Amar'ar. The book is as much built on reviewing the available written sources on the Beja as on field data. It includes the following chapters: 1. The Atmaan Amar'ar and their country; 2. From the Red Sea to the Nile Valley: an historical background to the Beja's resource situation; 3. Territory, resource control and solidarity among the Atmaan; 4. The responsible man; 5. Gender roles, marriage and brother-sister relations; 6. Getting grain; 7. Family herds; and 8. The dwindling resource base. An appendix deals with early Beja history. |