1: A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: And Some Account of the People who Preceded them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr (Cambridge Library Collection – African Studies)

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H. A. MacMichael was once a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933. This two-volume work, first published in 1922, is the culmination of almost 20 years’ ethnological research conducted at the same time as MacMichael was once stationed in quite a lot of parts of Sudan. It provides detailed histories of the origins, movements and degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan, in accordance with oral histories gained from interviews with local people, and on Sudanese genealogical records referred to as ‘nisbas’. These records provide a valuable insight into the construction and fluidity of ethnic identity at a local and regional level, and have been widely used as a basis for subsequent investigations concerning identity in Sudan. Volume 1 discusses pre-Islamic and up to date indigenous groups. This book comprises opinions on ethnicity that have been acceptable on the time it was once first published.

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