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The monograph on the history and culture of the Anyuak is the result of more than five years of fieldwork (1976-1983). It is a well-documented, detailed and passionate description of an African people's spiritual and material world, their culture and history. Myths, oral traditions, stories, maps, genealogies, records of songs and music as well as a great number of photographs invite the reader to join in the journey through the universe of the Anyuak in order to make own discoveries or simply to participate in the spiritual adventure. The Anyuak live on both sides of the border between South Sudan and South-western Ethiopia. They are relatives of the better known Shilluk, Dinka and Nuer, but have turned from cattle owners into fervent agriculturalists. The Anyuak are a highly intellectual, strong-minded and well-organised people who have created, in the middle of so-called wilderness, a centre of human civilisation. If their socio-political system is of a particular interest, their philosophy is equally fascinating: it centres on the human person and governs his or her relationship not only within human society but also with animals, earthly matters and spiritual forces. Thanks to their stubborn, almost desperate belief in the essential goodness of existence and the positive forces of life, the Anyuak have - in spite of all pressures from outside - up to now succeeded in preserving their cultural identity and maintaining their pride of being "pure human beings". While the first four volumes of the monograph described the sphere of the above (the sphere of transparency), the sphere of the below (the sphere of material existence, the earth) and the space between them (the sphere of human self-awareness and the period of personal existence), the fifth volume focuses on the Anyuak village and its physical and social structures and opens the wide and lively sphere of collective existence. A fundamental part of the community's socio-political organisation is the "Sphere of Justice" as the tool which holds society together and allows it - in spite of all tensions and ruptures - to survive as one existential unity. Die Monographie uber die Geschichte und Kultur der Anyuak in acht Banden ist das Ergebnis von uber funf Jahren Feldarbeit wahrend der Jahre 1976 bis 1983. Es handelt sich um eine gutdokumentierte, umfassende und genaue Beschreibung der spirituellen und materiellen Welt der Anyuak, einem im Sudsudan lebenden Volk. Fabeln, mundliche Erzahlungen, Geschichten, Karten, Genealogien, Musik- und Sprachaufnahmen sowie zahlreiche Fotos laden die Leser zu einer spannenden Entdeckungsreise in das faszinierende Universum der Anyuak ein. Der Lebensraum der Anyuak befindet sich auf beiden Seiten der Grenze zwischen dem Sudsudan und Sudwest-Athiopien. Die Anyuak sind verwandt mit den bekannteren Shilluk, Dinka und Nuer, haben sich aber aus reinen Viehbesitzern zu stolzen Bauern gewandelt. Sie sind ein ausserst kluges, willensstarkes und gutorganisiertes Volk, dem es gelungen ist, inmitten der sogenannten Wildnis einen Ort menschlicher Zivilisation zu schaffen. Genauso wie ihr soziopolitisches System von besonderem Interesse ist, so ist auch ihre Philosophie faszinierend: sie grundet auf den Menschen und ihren vielfaltigen Beziehungen zur Natur, zu wilden Tieren, zur Umwelt wie auch zu geistigen, bedrohlichen Kraften. Dank ihres starken, beinahe verzweifelten Glaubens an das essentiell Gute des Daseins und die positiven Krafte des Lebens ist es den Anyuak - allen ausseren Widrigkeiten zum Trotz - bis anhin gelungen, sich ihre kulturelle Identitat und ihren Stolz auf ihr "reines Mensch-Sein", zu bewahren. Die beiden ersten vier Bande der Monographie uber die Anyuak beschreiben die drei Lebensraume in der Wahrnehmung des Menschen: den Himmel mit seinen geistigen Kraften (die Sphare oben / Band I), die Erde mit ihren irdischen Kraften (die Sphare unten / Band II) und den dazwischen liegenden Raum des menschlichen Bewusstseins, wo sich der Mensch als essentiell andersartig erkennt, sich seine eigene Zivilisation aufbaut und seine Identitat gegen alle zerstorerischen Krafte zu verteidigen sucht (Bande III und IV). Der funfte Band befasst sich nun mit dem alltaglichen Leben in der Gemeinschaft, beschreibt den physischen Lebensraum der Dorfbewohner, beleuchtet die vielschichtigen Strukturen der Gesellschaft und erklart das soziale Selbstverstandnis der Menschen. Tragender Teil der sozialen und politischen Organisation ist dabei das starke Rechtssystem, welches die Gemeinschaft - trotz Spannungen und Risse - zusammenhalt und ihr ein Leben in Frieden ermoglicht
About the Author: Conradin Perner is a Swiss scholar with professional experiences in the fields of literature, ethnography, peace-building and humanitarian work. He lectured at a number of African and European universities, worked as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Africa, the Indian sub-continent, Afghanistan and Central Asia and as an advisor and consultant for the ICRC, Unicef, Unesco and the Foreign Department of Switzerland. Since January 2000, C. Perner played a leading role in the peace-making processes in the Sudan, first as a Commander of the Joint Military Commission in the Nuba Mountains and subsequently as a special senior peace advisor to the Swiss Government. One of his major accomplishments is the initiation of the website www.gurtong.net which provides unbiased information on the peoples and cultures of South Sudan. In recognition of his scientific and humanitarian work, his courageous fight for the respect and the dignity of the people of South Sudan during the long years of Civil War, the crucial role he played in the dramatic rescue operation of the so-called "lost boys" and in appreciation of his contribution to the promotion of peaceful co-existence and the restoration of cultural values of the country's many ethnic communities, Conradin Perner was awarded with the first honorary citizenship of South Sudan on the day of independence in July 2011. "In recognition of his service to advance and to promote human rights in South Sudan and around the world", C. Perner has received a "Humanitarian Award" from the Human Rights Commission of Austin in Minnesota in 2012. Der Autor Conradin Perner ist ein Schweizer Gelehrter mit Berufserfahrungen auf dem Gebiet der Literatur, Ethnographie, Friedensarbeit und humanitaren Hilfe. Er hat an einigen afrikanischen und europaischen Universitaten unterrichtet und als Delegierter, Berater und Experte in Afrika, auf dem indischen Subkontinent, in Afghanistan und Zentralasien fur das Internationale Komitee des Roten Kreuzes, Unicef, Unesco und viele Hilfsorganisationen gearbeitet. Seit Januar 2000 hat C. Perner eine bedeutende Rolle in den friedensstiftenden Prozessen im Sudan gespielt, zunachst als Kommandant von Friedenstruppen in den Nuba-Bergen und danach als langjahriger Berater der Schweizer Regierung im Sudsudan. Eines seiner wichtigsten Projekte ist die Website www.gurtong.net, welche neutrale und verlassliche Informationen uber die Menschen und Kulturen im Sudsudan liefert. Als Dank fur seinen Einsatz fur den Respekt und die Wurde der Menschen im Sudsudan wahrend der langen Jahre des Burgerkriegs und seinen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Rettung der sogenannten 'lost boys', und in Anerkennung seines unermudlichen Kampfes fur den Erhalt kultureller Werte, die Starkung der Menschenrechte und ein friedliches Zusammenleben der vielen verfeindeten ethnischen Gruppen des Landes, wurde Conradin Perner anlasslich der Unabhangigkeitsfeiern Sudsudans im Juli 2011 zum ersten Ehrenburger des neuen Staates ernannt. 'In Anerkennung seiner Bemuhungen um die Verbreitung der Menschenrechte im Sudsudan und in der Welt' wurde er im Oktober 2012 von der Human Rights Commission von Austin in Minnesota/USA mit einem 'Humanitarian Award' geehrt.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783796532115
  • Publisher: Schwabe
  • Publisher Imprint: Schwabe
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1789 gr
  • ISBN-10: 379653211X
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 359
  • Series Title: Anyuak - Living on Earth in the Sky


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