The Nuer a Description of the Modes of Livelihood And Political Institutions O
The Nuer a Description of the Modes of Livelihood And Political Institutions O
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In this section we note some character- istics of both which are germane to our inquiry. It may at once be said that it is not easy to discover a Nuer's clan, for a clan is not to Nuer an abstraction and there is no word in i^ their language that can be translated 'clan ' in ours. One may obtain the name of a man's clan by asking him who was his * ancestor of yore ' or his 'first ancestor ' (gwandong) or what are his 'seeds ' {kwai), but it is only when one already knows the clans and their lin...eages and their various ritual symbols, as the Nuer does, that one can easily place a man's clan through his lineage or by his spear-name and honorific salutation, for Nuer speak fluently in terms of lineages. A lineage is thok mac, the hearth, or thok dwiel, the entrance to the hut, or one may speak of kar, a branch. Thok dwiel is the commonest expression to denote a line of agnatic descent in those situations when genealogical exactness and precision are relevant, but in normal everyday usage Nuer employ the word cieng, as will be ex- plained later.
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In this section we note some character- istics of both which are germane to our inquiry. It may at once be said that it is not easy to discover a Nuer's clan, for a clan is not to Nuer an abstraction and there is no word in i^ their language that can be translated 'clan ' in ours. One may obtain the name of a man's clan by asking him who was his * ancestor of yore ' or his 'first ancestor ' (gwandong) or what are his 'seeds ' {kwai), but it is only when one already knows the clans and their lin...eages and their various ritual symbols, as the Nuer does, that one can easily place a man's clan through his lineage or by his spear-name and honorific salutation, for Nuer speak fluently in terms of lineages. A lineage is thok mac, the hearth, or thok dwiel, the entrance to the hut, or one may speak of kar, a branch. Thok dwiel is the commonest expression to denote a line of agnatic descent in those situations when genealogical exactness and precision are relevant, but in normal everyday usage Nuer employ the word cieng, as will be ex- plained later.
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