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The Nuer
AuthorE. E. Evans-Pritchard
Original titleThe Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
SubjectSocial anthropology
PublisherClarendon Press
Publication date
1940
Preceded byWitchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (1937) 
Followed byThe Sanusi of Cyrenaica (1949) 

The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People is an ethnographical study by the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–73) first published in 1940. The work examined the political and familial systems of the Nuer people in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and is considered a landmark work of social anthropology. It was the first of three books authored by Evans-Pritchard on Nuer culture.

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