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Paul Mabor Aliab was my father,he died in 1996 i would like to read this book..i was only 6 1/2 but now am 30 turning 31.. I want to know what he did for his country.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Geography and Brief History of Sudan | 9 |
The Changing Nilotic Frontier | 15 |
The EthnoHistorical Formation of Southern Sudan | 27 |
Slave Raids Wars and Migrations | 29 |
The Padang | 43 |
The Bor | 54 |
The Southern Bahr elGhazal | 64 |
Totemic Religion | 98 |
Human Sacrifice Virgins and River Spirits | 108 |
Priests Politics and Land | 124 |
Ethnic Expansion by Marriage | 134 |
Sovereign Nations within the Dinka | 143 |
EighteenthCentury Slavers and Traders | 153 |
Dinka Nuer Atwot and Anyuak | 164 |
Politics and Stratification among Stateless Peoples | 175 |
The Northern Bahr elGhazal 79 2 | 79 |
The Ascendancy of the Dinka in Southern Sudan | 89 |
Grain Cattle and Economic Power | 91 |
Summary and History | 185 |
Legacy of the Precolonial Era | 198 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, ISSN 1092-5228 |
| Author | Stephanie Beswick |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University Rochester Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1580461514, 9781580461511 |
| Length | 277 pages |
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