Anuak show of respect
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.23
Previous Other Number:
44 (153)
Accession Number:
1998.342.23.2
Description:
A woman with a small boy crawling on her knees past men gathered (out of frame) under Evans-Pritchard's canvas tent put up at Pochala.
The Anuak show respect by bowing in the presence of social superiors such as members of noble lineages, and especially to village headmen.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Pochala
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Body Language , Social Life
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.
Notes on print/mount - "44 153 woman crawling past men at Pocala"
Notes on print/mount - "44 153 woman crawling past men at Pocala"
Other Information:
In The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) page 39, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'One of the first sights that strike a visitor to Anuak country is the crouching of the people when they approach or walk across the line of vision of their village headmen'.
A photograph of women kneeling in front of a noble is also reproduced facing page 48.
[Chris Morton 16/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
