Aka mother-in-law avoidance
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.189.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
1998.344.189.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.189
Previous Other Number:
N 9
Accession Number:
1998.344.189.2
Description:
A group of men who have been involved in brick-making, avoiding a group of women bringing water for moistening the earth (out of frame).
Since some men were either directly or indirectly related by marriage to these women, traditional prohibition required that they move away into the nearby bush as they approached.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 December
Region:
Blue Nile Jebel Sillok
Group:
Aka (Sillok)
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Social Life , Physical Anthropology
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S.
SUDAN, DARFUNG.
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 189. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.9
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Male relations of the women "avoiding". One man is seen making off & many others are crouched the other side of the grass out of view. N9"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 189. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.9
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Male relations of the women "avoiding". One man is seen making off & many others are crouched the other side of the grass out of view. N9"
Other Information:
In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, pages 3-4 & 6, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard discusses in some detail this particular brick-making scene as well as the instance of mother-in-law avoidance that accompanied it.
[Chris Morton 13/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
