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Generations

Going tribal

Continental divide

Sudan

Civil war

Traditional Dinka life

• largest group in South Sudan
• separate politics and territory within
• claim a single ancestor
• different dialects within the Dinka
• uphold cows and nature as valuable

clans

• within the tribe are clans
• two categories of people: chiefly and common
• chiefly: people of the fishing spear
• common: people of the war spear
• Chief - supernatural powers

clan attributes

• Reciprocity
• Cattle - money, marriage, sacrifice

family

• Males are given an ox
• Everyone gets married
• Polygamists

growing up dinka

• Adulthood means losing teeth
• Scars as symbols of maturity

dinka beliefs

• the living and dead interact
• altar in every house
• many are Christians
• blended beliefs

social network

• all interaction occurs at the cattle camp
• generosity
• honor
• respect
• social norms

aesthetics

• Art mostly shows war (spears)
• literature is oral
• Western dress

tribal interaction

• two fellow tribes: Nuer and Shilluk
• categorize foreigners by skin color
• jur chol = black foreigners
• jur mathiang = light skin people
• They act in reciprocity.