Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

I: PRELUDE 1. 'The Hammer of the Kujurs': Government, Ethnography, and Nilotic Religions 2. Deng and Aiwel: Elements of the Prophetic Idiom and Definition of the Moral Community II: PROPHETS 3. Ngundeng: Prophetic Inspiration on the Eastern Frontier 4. Deng Laka: A Pragmatic Prophet 5. Guek Ngundeng and the Minor Prophets: Divinity Dispersed 6. Dual Diu and the Continuity of a Prophetic Tradition 7. Prophetic Rivalries in the Western Homeland III: PROPHECY 8. Prophetic Traditions in Peace and War 9. The Life of Phophecy APPENDICES 1. Nilotic Populations 2. Nuer Divisions 3. Nuer Age-Sets Bibliography Index