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The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

by E.E. Evans-Pritchard · 1940

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''Considerable part of the facts related have been previously recorded, chiefly in Sudan notes and records, and Africa.''-Pref.

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