Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth: Nuer Song

by Terese Svoboda and Cleo Qian

Poetry. The Nuer are a cattle herding people who live along the Nile. Although only a half million in population, they were made world famous by anthropologist E. Evans Pritchard's classic "The Nuer." Song is the art form most suited to their harsh climate and semi-nomadic existence. CLEANED THE CROCODILE'S TEETH was translated by Terese Svoboda, who collected and transcribed them in the Sudan with the aid of a PEN/Columbia Fellowship. The National...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912678631
• ISBN13: 9780912678634
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Greenfield Review Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.