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Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (Part of the New Immigrants Series)
This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. In understanding the experiences of the Nuer, readers will not only gain insights into the world of the refugee problem and the role of immig...more
Paperback, 141 pages
Published
August 10th 1999
by Allyn & Bacon
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I am more familiar with the Dinka than the Nuer, so this book gave me some insight into the Nuer, and it made the clever move to note that the Nuer have an important role in anthropology, having been studied closely in the 1940s. Their late 20th century appearance in and adaptation to Minnesota is contrasted to what anthropologists learned about them in the 1940s. My personal take away from this book was to learn that occasionally volunteers who give a lot feel betrayed, or at least not sufficie...more
Read for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class in college.
I have to say, after reading this twice (once as a student and once as an instructor) that this book is among my least favorite ethnographies. It seems very superficially researched, and is poorly written and edited. Ultimately, the reader gets very little insight into either Nuer journeys or Nuer lives.
A sad, but eye-opening study of those who have been forced to leave their homelands for the U.S.
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