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Class And Kinship In Sudanese Urban Communities, Richard Lobban Apr 2012

Class And Kinship In Sudanese Urban Communities, Richard Lobban

Richard A Lobban

This article represents some of the results of three field research studies of urbanization in the Sudan. The research has focussed on two urban communities in the Khartoum area, those known as Tuti Island' and Burri al Mahas.2 The first study was conducted as doctoral research in 1970-72; a brief re-study took place in 1975, and most recently research was conducted in 1979-80. This ten-year period was a time during which major economic and demographic change occurred in the urban Sudan.


Pigs And Their Prohibition, Richard Lobban Apr 2012

Pigs And Their Prohibition, Richard Lobban

Richard A Lobban

Little is more central to the study of the modern Middle East than religion. Amidst the differences between the Judaic and Islamic traditions, both are unified about the religious prohibition of swine as a source of food. This taboo is one of the more significant common markers of their ethnicity and religious code.