Nuer
A cattle-herding people of South Sudan and Ethiopia, well known in anthropology through E. E. Evans-Pritchard's study.
Also: Naath
The Nuer, who call themselves Naath, live in the floodplains of the Upper Nile in South Sudan and across the border in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. Like their Dinka neighbours they keep sanga-type cattle and move between villages and riverside cattle camps with the seasons. The British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard's book The Nuer, published in 1940, described their dependence on cattle, their political life without chiefs and their sense of time reckoned by herding tasks, and it became a classic. Cattle are central to Nuer marriage, kinship and religion, and young men, like Dinka men, have favourite song oxen.