The Nuer as Refugees: A Study on Social Adaptation
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1997-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Culture bases on analogy. and Nuer culture bases on cattle analogy which becomes clear in
exile where they are absent. In this short essay I have shown that in a situation where there
are no cattle N uer have created the ," social. cattle", called Pinyudo cow as an analogy to
explain a social phenomena. The cattle while physically absentis theoretically made present
in exile to organise and order society., Thus the Nueras refugees have created cattle
metaphors which can be cattle under conception,' cattle with calves, bulls, heifers etc.
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A Study on Social Adaptation