An important collection of essays by the noted Sudanese anthropologist that highlights the country's critical role in the development of anthropology in Europe and Africa, and in studies of social change and rural development in rural Africa. While being critical of the discipline for its contribution to the colonial enterprise, the author also shows how its methods, its focus on the 'local', and its holistic approach hold great promise for social and economic development on the continent. Index, bib, notes, 192pp, THE NETHERLANDS. INTERNATIONAL BOOKS, 9057270447

Jean Baptiste Sevette was hired as a photographer by the Swiss mission to the Sudan from 1967 to 1982. Through this experience, personal as much as professional, he gained privileged access to the daily lives of many ethnic groups. This photographic testimony is undoubtedly one of the last to look at these Nilotic groups who have now been chased out of history. Having adapted to the hardship imposed by their environment and proudly self-sufficient, have been forced into a growing dependence on Khartoum. 54 photos, 144pp, ITALY. FIVE CONTINENTS EDITIONS.

A study of traditional law and culture in Africa. Index, apps, gloss, notes, 287pp. AFROWORLD PUBLISHING Co, 0948583045

1988 Paperback

A classic work in social anthropology first published in 1940 looking at the political and economic lives of a predominantly pastoral people of Southern Sudan. Includes chapters on ecology, cattle, time and space, and the age-set system. Illustrated with b/w photographs taken by the author. Index, maps, 271pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A highly praised study of a people familiar to many through Evans Pritchard's classic 1930s account. Hutchinson describes the way the Nuer have been affected by the effects of civil war and violence that have engulfed all levels of Sudanese society. B/w illus, apps, bib, index, 408pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P,

Now in paperback. The author uses the concept of 'blood memories', the collective and personal recollections of traumatic events, to decipher the oral histories of the Dinka in particular. This presenta-tion of the pre-colonial history of south Sudan demonstrates how fierce wars, ethnic struggles and expansion shaped the history and the socio-political and military culture of the country. 424pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS.

This book explores the ways in which cultural knowledge is learned, transmitted, memorized and retrieved by the members of a culture. The focus here is the Beja of the Sudan who have a rich and varied oral tradition. The foundation of this book is the stories that the Beja tell about healers and sickness, both thorough histories 'of former times' and narratives of personal experience. Index, bib, apps, 366pp, UK. KEGAN PAUL INTERNATIONAL.

The first English edition of a book published in France in 1955. George Rodger was a former Life Magazine photographer who co-founded the Magnum Agency in 1947. He later went to Africa, disillusioned by the war and looking for another way of living. One result was these celebrated photographs. 60 b/W photos, viii, 128pp. UK . PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED.

First published in 1937, this influential social anthropology was based on the author's ethnographic research in Southern Sudan during the late 1920s. Includes an extensive introduction by Eva Gillies examining its contemporary relevance and placing the work in its historical context. Index, app, xxxiii, 265pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.