The Nuer As Refugees A Study On Social Adaptation

Culture bases on analogy. and Nuer culture bases on cattle analogy which becomes clear inrnexile where they are absent. In this short essay I have shown that in a situation where therernare no cattle N uer have created the ," social. cattle", called Pinyudo cow as an analogy tornexplain a social phenomena. The cattle while physically absentis theoretically made presentrnin exile to organise and order society., Thus the Nueras refugees have created cattlernmetaphors which can be cattle under conception,' cattle with calves, bulls, heifers etc.

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