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H.A. MacMichael was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 & 1933. This two-volume work, first published in 1922, is the culmination of almost 20 years' ethnological research conducted while MacMichael was stationed in various parts of Sudan. This ethnography provides detailed histories of the origins, movements & degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan based on oral histories gained from interviews with local people, & on Sudanese genealogical records known as 'nisbas'. These records provide a valuable insight into the construction & fluidity of ethnic identity at a local & regional level, & have been widely used as a basis for subsequent investigations concerning identity in Sudan. Volume 2 contains translations of nisbas with an analysis of their relation to ethnic identities.
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H.A. MacMichael was 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 twenty years' ethnological research conducted while MacMichael was stationed in various parts of Sudan. It provides detailed histories of the origins, movements and degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan, based on oral histories gained from interviews with local people, and on Sudanese genealogical records known 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 contemporary indigenous groups. This book contains opinions on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was first published.
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Semites --- Middle East
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Semites --- Semitic cults. --- Religion.
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"In this work, a sequel to my A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in an Age of Reason (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010), I study some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century - from the Enlightenment to the First World War. More precisely, I seek to understand the new status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new discipline. In order to do that, I focus on the concept of Semitic monotheism, a concept developed by Ernest Renan around the mid-nineteenth century, on the basis of the postulated (and highly problematic) contradistinction between Aryan and Semitic families of peoples, cultures, and religions. This contradistinction grew from the Western discovery of Sanskrit and its relationship with European languages, at the time of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Together with the rise of scholarly Orientalism, this discovery offered new perspectives on the East, as a consequence of which the Near East was demoted, as it were, from its traditional status as the locus of the Biblical revelations. The book essentially studies a central issue in the modern study of religion. Doing so, however, it emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences, and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day"--
Religion --- Semites --- Religion --- Sémites --- Study and teaching --- Etude et enseignement
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The volumes in the new series Religions of the World surveys religions that have had a major impact on the history of the world and that continue to play a role in relationships between nations and ethnic groups. All aspects--including roots and founding, primary beliefs and cultural activities, the way the faiths are viewed by the rest of the world, and the experience of growing up as a member of the religion--are be examined. As one of the world's most ancient religions, Judaism serves as a foundation for the belief systems of two other major faiths--Christianity and Islam. Although the Jews