TO understand Dr. Evans-Pritchard's admirable account of the Nuer, a pastoral group inhabiting the swampy lowlands south of the junction of the Nile with the Sobat and Bahr el Ghazal, one must ...

Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them.

There are strict limits on when and how birds can be used in Nuer society. The use of birds as bushmeat or for making traditional medicine is carefully controlled by elders and within family ...