Human resources: Social and cultural features of the Jebel Marra project area

by Fredrik Barth

This report has been prepared as a contribution to the joint report of a team of FAO experts responsible for surveying the resources and formulating a development plan for the Jebel Narra region of Danfur in the Sudan. This is a relatively isolated and undeveloped region of the Sudan on the edge of the Sahara desert; mainly because of its comparatively rich water resources it was thought by the Sudan Government to have considerable developmental potential. A group of experts, including among others hydrologists, geologists, and agronomists, worked over a period of five years to make an inventory of the total resources of the region. Since the area is at pr sent occupied and exploited by a native population of between 200,000 and 250,000 inhabitants, the services of social anthropologists were also needed on the team, both to survey the human resources of the area and to make social and cultural considerations relevant to the design of the development plan. This is the social anthropologists' part of the paper. 90 pages and 7 page appendix.

94 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1988