The Nuer - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/the-nuer.html The Nuer call themselves Naath. Only their immediate neighbors, the Dinka, Shilluk and Arabs, call them Nuer. Most foreigners, which includes those with whom the Nuer neither fought nor traded, are called Bar which means 'almost entirely cattleless'. Those foreigners who live even more remotely and include Europeans are called Jur which means 'entirely cattleless', a most unthinkable state indeed.

The people of Ciengach, where the film was made, are the Eastern Jikany, one of about a sixteen distinct tribes of Nuer. Twenty-five years ago E.E. Evans Pritchard estimated the total population of Nuer to be around a quarter of a million. Since then the number has undoubtedly dwindled considerably due to warfare, civil strife, sickness, drought and the general abandonment of traditional lifeways.

a film by Robert Gardner and Hilary Harris
distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Africa
• Nuer
• Naath
• herding
• cattle
• cow
• anthropology
• ethnography
• documentary
• film

[kmburke84]

these cows are treated better than in the US

[pana21panda]

@AfricanReality, why are sending people there?

[lostthoughts227]

I dont see any text? Just the video

[MyLalinea]

this men are tall.

[meebee2beebee]

I am trying to find some good recent ethnographic films (1995-present)...anyone have any suggestions?

[thelivingpoet]

@pauli9363 they are non modern

[AfricanReality]

@faboge Read Isiah 18 in the Bible.

[chouldj1]

This remind me of harmony we used to have back then. Culture teaches more and it is good for generation after generation to see and look back for the past that shape the future. Great documentary!

[faboge]

are clothing optional for the good folks of Nuer?

[coyoluo]

Thank you for the film! i am from the luo tribe, i had shivers just watching the film, it speaks volumes to me, so thank you! i almost she a tear when the man was singing! beautiful!