Michael Kevane and Endre Stiansen
editors

Contents

Michael Kevane and Endre Stiansen
Introduction

Jay Spaulding
Early Kordofan

Endre Stiansen
The Gum Arabic Trade in the Mid-19th Century

David Decker
Chattels, Captives and Companions: Women, the State
and religion in Mahdist Kordofan

M.W. Daly
Great White Chief: H.A. MacMichael and the Tribes of Kordofan

Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk
Kordofan: From Tribe to Nazirate

Stephanie Beswick
The Ngok: Emergence and Destruction of a Nilotic Proto-State
in Southwest Kordofan

Awad al-Sid al-Karsani
Religion, Ethnicity and Class: the Role of the Tijaniyya Order
in An-Nahud Town

Mustafa Babiker
Land Tenure in Kordofan: The Conflict between the Colonial
Administrators' "Communalism" and Dar Hamar Natives' "Individualism"

Martha Saavedra
Ethnicity, Resources and the Central State: Politics in
the Nuba Mountains, 1950-1989

Kurt Beck Tribesmen
Tribesmen, Townsmen and the Struggle for a Proper Lifestyle
in Northern Kordofan