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Some Nuer Notions of Nakedness, Nudity, and Sexuality1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2012

T. O. Beidelman
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Although the Nuer are generally described as ‘naked’, the ethnographic literature and photographs suggest that they hold certain notions about ‘nakedness’ and ‘nudity’ which prescribe wearing or not wearing certain garments or ornaments in certain social situations. Some of these notions seem closely related to important Nuer conceptual categories of their social groups and their world, especially those related to sexuality, marriage, and affinity, and the process of changing from one social status or moral state to another. Some of these are considered in this paper.

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Africa , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 113 - 131
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Copyright © International African Institute 1968

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