caa a22 4500 386343985 CHVBK 20180307111805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021853700024488 doi S0021853700024488 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021853700024488 Johnson Douglas H. Political Ecology in the Upper Nile: the Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral ‘Common Economy' [Elektronische Daten] [Douglas H. Johnson] The enduring ethnographic image of the pastoral Nilotes of the Upper Nile of the Sudan is that of peoples structurally opposed to each other with only limited social and economic ties between major ethnic groups. This image is derived from Evans-Pritchard's study of the Nuer, which was based on field work in the early 1930s. This was a time when both the Nuer and the Dinka of the region were subjected to a series of extreme natural calamities (floods, cattle disease, locusts, and crop failures), but were limited in their responses to these challenges through the restrictions on movement and social intercourse imposed on them by government pacification policies. By comparing the 1929-36 period with preceding and succeeding periods of great environmental stress, it is possible to discern a pattern of developing interdependence between contiguous Nuer and Dinka groups, as each sought the resources of the other in reconstructing their economic lives. Evans-Pritchard's description of a ‘common economy' among the Nuer can be applied to the wider pastoral community in analysing this expansion of social and economic networks. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1989-11), 463-486 0021-8537 30:3<463 1989 30 AFH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700024488 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700024488 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnson Douglas H. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1989-11), 463-486 0021-8537 30:3<463 1989 30 AFH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge