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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] Collins and Beswick (your quote-mines) are based on oral traditions. You're too dumb to even know what you're quoting. Here's a review of Beswick, published in the journal [i]The International Journal of African Historical Studies[/i]: "[b]The extensive and creative use of oral sources[/b] is one of the book's most impressive features. Between 1990 and 2000, Beswick conducted more than three hundred interviews with southern Sudanese living in Kenya, Egypt, the United States, Canada, and "South Sudan" (as many southern peoples have referred to their homeland since 1983, when the civil war against the northern government resumed). [b]Through these oral sources, Beswick culled information about Dinka traditions, myths, and genealogies (stretching back, in some cases, a dozen generations or more), as well as recollections about conflicts, past and present.[/b] Indeed, the "blood memory" cited in the book's title refers to "long historical memories of wrongdoing" by others, including wars, slave and cattle raids, and so on, as recounted through oral narratives." (Sharkey, 2004) The above review explains the political biases behind the author since it notes their agenda is to "blu[r] the significance of a North-South dichotomy" in Sudan, so no wonder the author clings to a historical revisionism which says the Dinka came from central Sudan, a lot further north than mainstream scholarship says. The above review also notes exactly this: "Beswick marshals her sources in order to challenge the view common in older scholarship that all the Western Nilotic peoples of Sudan originated in the southern regions where they now live." Beswick's key sources are though oral traditions and I've already explained why one has to be sceptical about this, needless to say mainstream scholars are not embracing this fringe/pseudo-history. Collins (your other source) notes in his review of Beswick- "To date there has been considerable [b]speculation, nothing more,[/b] by archaeologists and linguists that the origins of the Dinka are to be found in the Gezira (Arabic for "island"), that fertile plain lying south from Khartoum between the Blue Nile and the White. The massive evidence from virtually every [b]Dinka oral tradition enables Beswick[/b] to make a compelling case that the Dinka indeed originated in the Gezira." (Collins, 2005) speculation "nothing more" :rolleyes: Oral tradition, like I said. Please go read these sources before making yourself look even more stupid. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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