Resettlement village Zandeland
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
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1998.341.369.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.369.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.369
Previous Other Number:
16 1 (G.5) [frame 1]
Accession Number:
1998.341.369.1
Description:
Huts of a new Government settlement seen in the distance along a wide path.
Resettlement away from tsetse-infested areas (sleeping sickness prevention) was a feature of colonial policy from the 1920s onwards.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Communication , Colonial
Keyword:
Building House , Road
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - [1966.27.21] G PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - S.
SUDAN, AZANDE TRIBE.
Box of negatives in envelopes.
Nos.
1 - 400
Added Accession Book Entry - [In pencil in column] Catalogue room.
[1966.27.23] G PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - S. SUDAN, AZANDE TRIBE. Box of prints in envelopes, nos. 1 - 400 (prints of negatives in 1966.27.21)
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Zande Photographs (E-P)"] - 369. Section of Government Settlement. 16/1 G.5.
Note on negative m/s ink - "G.5"
Added Accession Book Entry - [In pencil in column] Catalogue room.
[1966.27.23] G PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - S. SUDAN, AZANDE TRIBE. Box of prints in envelopes, nos. 1 - 400 (prints of negatives in 1966.27.21)
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Zande Photographs (E-P)"] - 369. Section of Government Settlement. 16/1 G.5.
Note on negative m/s ink - "G.5"
Other Information:
E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard alludes to, but rarely talks at length about socio-cultural change as a result of contemporary colonialism.
New settlements, it seems, were established away from areas where trypanosomes causing sleeping sickness were believed to be prevalent, such as rivers and swamp areas.
In his major works on the Azande, several comments allude to his intellectual attitude toward colonialism: 'The British controlled the country from 1905 but there cannot be said to have been any very effective administration till a few years before I first visited it [1926], though there had, of course, been some social and cultural changes, especially in political affairs.
I am not concerned here with those changes, which were mostly imposed on the Azande and are-when I use the present tense the reference is to 1926-30-not regarded by them as part of their way of life but something to be passively accepted or to be circumvented or ignored.
To give one example: though the Administration compelled them to maintain wide roads, it was noticeable that when a group of Azande walked down them they did so in single file as they were accustomed to do along their bush paths.
The Azande (OUP 1971, page 69).
In Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932, page 500) C.G.
Seligman writes that 'today the natives have..
on account of sleeping sickness been concentrated into settlements along the Governmnet roads, and the restrictions on their former mode of life which this change involves is already having economic consequences.' A much fuller account of the effects of colonial administration on the Azande is found in Conrad Reising's The Zande Scheme (Northwestern University Press, 1966) [Chris Morton 14/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
