- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd; Reprint edition (1 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714838403
- ISBN-13: 978-0714838403
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #11 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Africa > Sudan
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In 1949, photographer George Rodger was granted permission to spend some time with the Nuba tribe. The Nubas were a people living in a state of primitivism, exactly as their ancestors had centuries before. The photographer presented the tribe in heroic terms, remarking that the Nubas were a people whom "progress of any kind had passed by". This text collects the photographs previously published in "Le Village de Noubas", showing the people taking part in sports such as spear-throwing, wrestling, and stick-fighting.
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The photographs in this book are fascinating for the insight they give into an Africa preserved by colonial rule as if in aspic. Like all studies of this sort, they remind us of our original social condition. The book is divided into sections, some general, but most dealing with the spectacle of wrestling that played an important part of tribal life. It is interesting to see people living in the authentic,traditional African manner before the notion of "poverty" became paradigmatic.
The book is not condescending and deals with its subjects in a most human and even-handed manner. Well-worth reading!
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