The Alur-ization of Aidan Southall – Contested Ethnonymic Traditions in North-Western Uganda

Browne, Adrian J.

Abstract

This article concerns some of the personal commitments and relationships that compelled British anthropologist Aidan Southall to write his seminal essay titled “The Illusion of Tribe” (1970). It analyzes the contested ethnic movement that Southall’s doctoral work on the Alur obscured, the reasons for this act of concealment, and the ways these experiences shaped the ideas he later advanced.

Citation

Browne, A. J. (2018). The Alur-ization of Aidan Southall – Contested Ethnonymic Traditions in North-Western Uganda. History in Africa, 45, 221-244. https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2018.6

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 15, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Apr 19, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jun 25, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 27, 2018
• Journal: History in Africa
• Print ISSN: 0361-5413
• Electronic ISSN: 1558-2744
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Pages: 221-244
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2018.6
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1328419