In Southern Nilotic History,Christopher Ehret reconstructs the history of the Southern Nilotic speaking peoples of East Africa, from their earliest origins to the beginning of the colonial period. As a history, the book is a remarkable tour de force. Using mainly linguistic evidence, the author locates populations, moves them around, determines their relative influence vis--vis their neighbors, and reconstructs aspects of their culture, from basic economy to the practice of extracting incisors. American Anthropologist

Last modified

• 08/08/2018

Creator

• Christopher Ehret

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2VM74

Subject

• African Studies

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• History

Date created

• 1971

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International