Alur Hourglass - Southall, Aidan
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Aidan Southall was involved with the Alur of Uganda from 1947 to 1992. During this prolonged fieldwork associations, he recorded different versions of how generations told and interpreted their social and political structural processes; fortunes and misfortunes with witchcraft as the underlying force. Alur Hourglass opens with the colonial past and present globalizing world in which the Alur operate. It then goes back to mythological beginnings of Alur groups. The narrators' oral inflections are echoed and emphasized in this written presentation. It opens with a family situation out of which…mehr

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Aidan Southall was involved with the Alur of Uganda from 1947 to 1992. During this prolonged fieldwork associations, he recorded different versions of how generations told and interpreted their social and political structural processes; fortunes and misfortunes with witchcraft as the underlying force. Alur Hourglass opens with the colonial past and present globalizing world in which the Alur operate. It then goes back to mythological beginnings of Alur groups. The narrators' oral inflections are echoed and emphasized in this written presentation. It opens with a family situation out of which arises the division between the human and animal worlds and the central ancestry and Kingship of Alur Society. Narrates how when Alur groups began to divided from one another, important moral rules were established and strongly sanctioned. Then it vividly portrays the ineluctable intensity and complexity of kinship, drawing in threads throughout society. The Accommodation of Death, through the Courts of Death proceedings subtly structured by hallowed convention expressing and sanctioning the central moral percepts of Alur Society. Mourning concludes with the celebration of life dance that ties together many groups.
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Aidan W. Southall (1920-2009) was an anthropologist who worked in Uganda and Madagascar. From 1957 to 1961 he was Director of the Institute of Social Research and was also Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology whose syllabus he designed. He held visiting Professorships at University of Chicago and University California during 1961-62. He moved to Syracuse University in 1963 and to the University of Wisconsin Madison before retiring in 1991. He first worked among the Alur in 1947 and he continued visiting and writing about them in retirement.