Completelybanned’s Reviews > The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People > Status Update

This book has been slow going, but it is rich and fascinating. It is nice to linger on the pages. Evans-Pritchard has up to this point described the Nuer's esteem and reliance on cattle, how their cattle rearing occurred in an arid environment shaped by the monsoon cycle; and he has theorized how their material circumstances shape their ideas of time and space.