From the Mountains To the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese Society

Product Description The author discusses the ways in which the Lafofa people in the Sudan are affected by centralization of administration, commercialization of agriculture, and the influence of Muslim culture. The study is a revision of the author’s dissertation in anthropology. About the Author Lief Manger is professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen. His latest monograph is “From the Mountains to the Plains. The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba in Sudanese Societ” (1994). He has co-edited a book on the Red Sea, “Survival on Meagre Resources. Pastoral Adaptation of the Hadendowa in the Red Sea Hills”(1996) and edited the volume “Muslim Diversity. Local Islam in Global Contexts” (1999).