H. A. MacMichael was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933. This two-volume work, first published in 1922, is the culmination of almost twenty years' ethnological research conducted while MacMichael was stationed in various parts of Sudan. It provides detailed histories of the origins, movements and degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan, based on oral histories gained from interviews with local people, and on Sudanese genealogical records known as 'nisbas'. These records provide a valuable insight into the construction and fluidity of ethnic identity at a local and regional level, and have been widely used as a basis for subsequent investigations concerning identity in Sudan. Volume 1 discusses pre-Islamic and contemporary indigenous groups. This book contains opinions on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was first published.
H. A. MacMichael was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933. This two-volume work, first published in 1922, is the culmination of almost twenty years' ethnological research conducted while MacMichael was stationed in various parts of Sudan. It provides detailed histories of the origins, movements and degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan, based on oral histories gained from interviews with local people, and on Sudanese genealogical records known as 'nisbas'. These records provide a valuable insight into the construction and fluidity of ethnic identity at a local and regional level, and have been widely used as a basis for subsequent investigations concerning identity in Sudan. Volume 1 discusses pre-Islamic and contemporary indigenous groups. This book contains opinions on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was first published.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Bibliography; Part I. The Inhabitants of the Northern Sudan before the Time of the Islamic Invasions: 1. The pre-Islamic Arabian element; 2. The Nubians, the Nuba and the Libyan element; 3. The Bega, the Blemyes and Nuba of Meroe; 4. The non-Arab races of Dárf¿r; Part II. The Progress of the Arab Tribes through Egypt: 5. The progress through Egypt in the middle ages of certain Arab tribes now represented in the Sudan; 6. The general progress of the Arabs through Egypt and their invasions of Dongola; Part III. The Arab Tribes of the Sudan at the Present Day: 7. The Ga'aliín and Danágla group; 8. The Guhayna group; 9. The Guhayna group continued; 10. The Guhayna group continued; 11. The Kawáhla group; 12. The Kenána and Deghaym; 13. The Rikábía; 14. The Hawáwír, Gellába Howára, Wáhía and Koróbát; 15. The 'Abábda and Kerrárísh; 16. The Southern Mahass; 17. The Hamrán; 18. (a) The Rasháída and Zebaydía; (b) The Hadáreb and Hud¿r.
