Cattle in Sudan

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[Dottie b]

Here is a fascinating article from the Washington Post about what cattle mean to people in Sudan.

http://tinyurl.com/2rkxjh


Dottie B

[Kay]

Yes, that was fascinating!

[Peter S]

Thanks for that Dottie, fascinating stuff as you say.

Reading that Washington Post article took me back to sociology classes many years ago, concentrating on the research by the pioneering anthropologist Edward Evans-Pritchard into the Nuer people of Southern Sudan, whose culture and economy was/is so intricately tied to their cattle

The Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford has a wonderful Southern Sudan section on its website, where the photo above is taken from.
edit: removed the photo: the Pitt-Rivers Museum evidently don't like people hotlinking their images

And soon we'll be able to lend to people in Southern Sudan, according to Matt Flannery's blog: "Soon, cameras will be flashing for BRAC in Tanzania, Uganda and Southern Sudan.  Sudan?  You can do microfinance there?  If anyone can, BRAC can."