Nuer kinship diagram
163 x 120 mm | Negative glass plate gelatin
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
1998.353.66
Description:
A kinship diagram of part of the Western Jikany Nuer village of Nyueny, which Evans-Pritchard visited in 1936.
The diagram, on a large sheet of paper and written using stenciled lettering, is pinned to the interior wall of a building, almost certainly in Oxford, and probably in the late 1930s when he was Research Lecturer in African Sociology.
Photographer:
Unknown. Possibly Edward Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1937 - 1940 circa
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyueny
Group:
Nuer Western Jikany
Notes:
A fuller diagram of the kinship structure of Nyueny village is found on page 14-15 of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer
(Oxford, Clarendon: 1951) [CM 12/01/2006]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Graphic Art , Writing
Primary Documentation:
One of four glass plates found in a Kodak Bromide paper box among the Evans-Pritchard Collection, labeled in red ink in Evans-Pritchard's hand 'Nuer Kinship Diags' & in another hand in ms pencil 'Dr Evans-Pritchard Exeter College Oxford' [CM 06/01/2006]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/01/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
