The Hadendowa Salif: Successes and failures of indigenous cultural institutions in managing the food system
The Hadendowa's customary law code, the Salif, used to regulate the social and economic behaviour of the Hadendowa, as well as their rational utilization of resources. Since the outbreak of the 1984 famine, however, the Hadendova have been depending on relief food, which has disrupted their Salif and rendered it uncapable of helping the Hadendowa to to cope with the current stress situation.
The responses of different ethnic groups in the Sudan to rural-urban migration
The ethnic identities of the various population groups in the Sudan are a product of their specific natural and social environments. The migration of these groups to the towns, especially to Greater Khartoum, involves a drastic change of cultural norms and values. However, the capability of change and the subsequent results are strongly conditioned by the specific background of each ethnic group and by the conditions in its area of origin. This is being proved by a comparative study on three ethnic groups in the Sudan: the Nuba, the Zaghawa and the Hadandawa.
Pastoral Production and Society
Compte rendu de la conference internationale sur "Societe et production pastorales", UNESCO, 1-3 decembre 1976, organisee par l'equipe de recherche sur l'ecologie et l'anthropologie des societes pastorales de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.