Die Schilluk: Geschichte, Religion und Leben eines Niloten-Stammes Nach P Banholzers FSC und eigenen Auszeichnungen dargestellt

Abstract

FATHER HOFMAYR has produced the first monograph on a tribe of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and is therefore to be congratulated. Yet, grateful as ethnologists must be for this volume, the author has distinctly lessened the value of his monograph by limiting the material he has used. So far as the Shilluk themselves are concerned, he seems to have depended for the bulk of his material on the unfinished notes in the journal of the late Father Banholzer; it is true that he has supplemented these by a number of his own observations made between the years 1906 and 1916, as well as those of two other missionaries, Fathers Kohnen and Stang, and added some useful comparative material collected by Father Crazzlara among the Acholi, but he has not availed himself of the material which has appeared during the last few years in Sudan Notes and Records; indeed, the reviewer has not noticed any reference to this most useful periodical. These remarks are made in no carping spirit, but are necessary, for in an important work such as this it is advisable that the reader should realise the extent to which omissions are probable. There is no index; only a table of contents.

Die Schilluk: Geschichte, Religion und Leben eines Niloten-Stammes. Nach P. Banholzers F.S.C. und eigenen Auszeichnungen dargestellt.

Von Wilhelm Hofmayr. (Anthropos, Ethnologische Bibliothek: Internationale Sammlung ethnologischen Monographien, Band 2, Heft 5.) Pp. xvi + 521 + 35 Tafeln. (Modling bei Wien: Verlag der Administration des Anthropos, St. Gabriel, 1925.) 20 gold marks.