War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile by James, Wendy

War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199298679)

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War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile by James, Wendy

War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile

$110.00
War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile by James, Wendy

War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book completes a trilogy by the anthropologist Wendy James. It is a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war. Some have responded by defending their nation, others by joining the armed resistance of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and yet others eventually finding security as international refugees in Ethiopia, and even further afield in countries such as the USA. Sudan's peace agreement of 2005 leaves much uncertainty for the future of the whole country, as conflict still rages in Darfur. The Uduk case shows how people who once lived together now try to maintain links across borders and even continents through modern communications, and where possible recreate their 'traditional' forms of story-telling, music, and song.

Author: Wendy James
ISBN-10: 019929867X
ISBN-13: 9780199298679
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2007
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.82w x 0.96d
By Wendy James
By Wendy James
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Wendy James is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College. She has carried out research in the Sudan and Ethiopia intermittently over four decades, and has long-standing academic links with universities and other institutions in the region of north-eastern Africa. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She has published widely not only on Africa but on the history and current scope of anthropology, as well as acting on various occasions as a consultant to the UN and associated agencies. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Copenhagen in 2005.

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