Film
The Shilluk of Southern Sudan
1976 · 52m · Documentary
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Overview
This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard’s 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk. Although the Reth (king) has been reduced to the status of second-class magistrate in dispute settlement by the Sundanese government, he is still the focus of political and national identity for a Shilluk people composed of competing territorial groupings. At the death of the Reth, his spirit passes into the Nile.
Crew
- Chris CurlingDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1976
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
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