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The Shilluk of Southern Sudan (1976)
Directed by Chris Curling
Documentary · 52m
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
- Director
- Chris Curling
Details
- Release date
- 1976-01-01
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United Kingdom