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| Title: | People of the River: Subsistence Economy of the Anywaa (Anuak) of Western Ethiopia |
| Author: | Kurimoto, Eisei |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Periodical: | Senri Ethnological Studies |
| Issue: | 43 |
| Pages: | 29-57 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | Anuak subsistence economy Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade |
| Abstract: | The Anywaa (Anuak) are a Nilotic riverine people who live mainly along the tributaries of the Sobat River, itself a tributary of the White Nile, in the lowlands of the Gambela Region (Ethiopia). They also live in the Upper Nile Province of Sudan. Anywaaland is characterized by considerable ecological variation and the Anywaa classify their natural environment into three major categories according to the vegetation. They are, from west to east, or from downstream to upstream, 'bap' (grassland or seasonal swamp), 'wok' (woodland) and 'lul' (forest). The folk classification of the environment corresponds to the combination of various types of subsistence: fishing, hunting and gathering, and agriculture. Shifting cultivation is practised in 'lul' and the hinterlands of 'wok' and 'bap', while in 'wok', riverbank cultivation dominates. The author describes the multiple subsistence economy of the Ethiopian Anywaa, which is closely related to and dependent on the river. Today, it has been profoundly transformed by the encroachment of the State and the market economy, the influx of settlers, Sudanese refugees, and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA), and is being replaced by brewery and gold panning businesses. The paper is based on field research in 1988-1991 and subsequent visits in 1993 and 1995. App. (list of collected specimens of useful wild plants), bibliogr., notes, ref. |