Bibliographical Note on the Ethnology of the Southern Sudan

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The Sudan falls into two distinct cultural parts: the Arabicspeaking Islamic peoples of the north and the heterogeneous pagan peoples of the south. This note is intended as a short guide to those who, while not themselves specialists, desire to know what ethnological research has been done in the Southern Sudan, where the results of this research are to be found, and the point investigations have reached at the time of writing.