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Title: | Nuer modes of address |
Author: | Evans-Pritchard, E.E. |
Book title: | The position of women in primitive societies and other essays in social anthropology |
Year: | 1965 |
Pages: | 197-204 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | Nuer women's work |
Abstract: | This article describes different ways in which persons are addressed among the Nilotic Nuer of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The forms of address described are all employed in salutations. Names and titles of address symbolize a man's social position in relation to the people around him. Notes. |