Aka mother-in-law avoidance

103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.189.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.189

Previous Other Number:

N 9

Accession Number:

1998.344.189.1

Description:

A group of men who have been involved in brick-making, avoiding a group of women bringing water for moistening the earth (out of frame). Since some men were either directly or indirectly related by marriage to these women, traditional prohibition required that they move away into the nearby bush as they approached.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1926 December

Region:

Blue Nile Jebel Sillok

Group:

Aka (Sillok)

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Social Life , Physical Anthropology

Documentation:

Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]

Primary Documentation:

PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p. 98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S. SUDAN, DARFUNG. VARIOUS TRIBES. Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 189. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.9

Note on negative ms ink - "N"

Other Information:

In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, pages 3-4 & 6, E. E. Evans-Pritchard discusses in some detail this particular brick-making scene as well as the instance of mother-in-law avoidance that accompanied it. [Chris Morton 13/2/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 19/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]