Nuer

Except, it’s how to make suffering sufferable through the use of religious symbols. In the case of Nuer religion, Nuer interpret all misfortunes as from their god, Kwoth. The symbol of cattle, and cattle sacrifice is a way in which they control their suffering. Evidently, in response to new situations and forms of suffering, the interpretation of misfortune and how it is managed evolve. One way Nuer interpret suffering and misfortune is as Kwoth’s will. Kwoth can be interpreted as Christianity’s…

Nuer Lives Nuer Journeys is an ethnography about African Nuer who have migrated to Minnesota. The author of the book is the anthropologist Dr. Jon D. Holtzman. The Nuer are an African people, specifically from Sudan (Holtzman 2008: 2). The Nuer base their way of life around growing crops and raising livestock. Additionally, they belong to the Nilo-Saharan cultural/linguistic group and are a sizable ethnic group in southern Sudan. The Nuer became refugees during the second civil war in Sudan, a…

Impacts of Change From the Yir Yoront and the Nuer of Sudan, I have drawn that culture means a lot more than Eric Lassiter defined in his book an Invitation to Anthropology. He explains culture as “a shared and negotiated system of belief among a group of people” . While this is a very correct definition of culture, I don’t think this explains culture as wide and as intricate as it is. Through the different cultural groups we have read about, we see that it is the way we eat, dress, talk, walk,…

"My Epic Hero" Every hero has had a life changing situation that has well, changed their life and created the type of person they are now. Whether it was a fight they lost, or won or someone they defeated or a journey it turned their whole life around. Their perspective on life was no longer the same. That is exactly what happened to the Greek hero Odysseus. Odysseus was not always a hero. He was just like any other commoner, he lived with his wife Penelope, and son Telemachos. Odysseus was the…

etc, we are very much divided again. Within the Nuer tribe, who follow the spiritual essence of the totem, polygamy is very much accepted, often identified as natural. Whereas, within more traditional religious cultures, it is thought of as sinful and intrinsically wrong. Additionally, many societies would see the killing of another human being as inherently wrong, something which could be ascribed as an absolute universal truth. However, the Nuer see things differently, and often homicide is…

Within the book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota written by Jon D. Holtzman, he follows a group of people called the Nuer. Within the book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives written by Jon D. Holtzman, he follows a group of people called the Nuer. Holtzman describes the Nuer in more detail as being agro-pastoralists and relying on a mixed economy of animal farming and cultivation in order to survive. They have been classified as members of both the Nilotic cultural and linguistic…

between ethnic groups in Southern Sudan during and after the civil war with North Sudan. I am going to examine the changes that occurred in Sudan and focus on the differences between the two largest tribes of the Upper Nile area, the Dinka and the Nuer. By starting with the traditional ways of life I will look at how two tribes that were historically…

Judaism’s tendency of using the past to explain the present is very similar to The Myth of the First Cattle Raid. Lincoln discussed the story of Dinka and Nuer whom are the two children of God. God gifted his children Dinka and Nuer with a cow and a calf. One night Dinka decided to steal his brother’s calf. As a punishment, dependents of Nuer were encouraged to raid Dinka people’s cattle numerous times. This myth truly represents the reoccurring theme that the past shapes the…

foods represents the person’s identity itself.(Anna Meigs 1988 : 354). In other words, this mythical rules work as a symbol, and by sharing this belief with others, Hua culture is constructed. Secondly, in the Nuer worlds, the naming system of the cattle and people has symbolic meaning to the Nuer. The men are called by their cattle’s name which they breed everyday, and women are…

the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, and a Dinka, supposedly tried to disarm the army loyal to former Vice President Machar, a Nuer, and a critic of Kiir. “The violence has spiraled ever since taking on an ethnic dimension with Machar, ethnically Nuer, leading a group of rebels against President Salva Kiir, ethnically Dinka” (end Genocide.org 1). The Dinka and Nuer have a long rivalry with each other, competing for land, cattle, and now political power. They also dislike each other for ethnic…