The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People, E. E. Evans Pritchard's 1940 scholarly study from Clarendon Press, Oxford, is the foundational ethnography of the Nuer, cited here to source a Nilotic Peoples fact's meta scholarship claim that Evans Pritchard's fieldwork became a foundational anthropological text. Its strength is that it is the foundational ethnography itself, a landmark of the discipline. Its limit is that it is cited here for that narrow meta scholarship claim specifically, not for its own substantive ethnographic content, and it is paired with Lienhardt's already catalogued study for the Dinka half of the same claim.
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Tier one: the foundational ethnography of the Nuer from Clarendon Press, Oxford, cited here for the narrow meta scholarship claim that Evans Pritchard's fieldwork became a foundational anthropological text. Its limit is that it is cited for that meta scholarship claim specifically, not for its own substantive ethnographic content, and is paired with Lienhardt's already catalogued study for the Dinka half of the same claim. NotesThe foundational 1940 ethnography itself, cited to source the Nilotic Peoples fact's meta-scholarship claim that Evans-Pritchard's Nuer fieldwork became a foundational anthropological text; paired with the already-catalogued Lienhardt for the Dinka half of the same claim.
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AuthorE. E. Evans-Pritchard
PublisherClarendon Press, Oxford
Publication Year1940
URLhttps://archive.org/details/nuer0000eeev
Source TypeEthnography
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This source names Nilotic Peoples directly: "of the Nuer, cited here to source a Nilotic Peoples fact's meta scholarship claim that Evans Pritchard's fieldwork became a foundational anthropological text."
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