Nuer dilemmas

Coping with money, war, and the state Orientations; Blood, cattle, and cash: the commodification of Nuer values; Guns, warfare and the state: new contexts of power, violence and leadership; Cattle over blood: the changing symbolism of gender, marriage and filiation; Incest is blood and the cow: struggles overt the control of reproduction; The emergence of bull-boys: political leadership, legitimacy and male initiation; Cattle aren´t killed for nothing: christianity, conversion and the enduring importance of prophets