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Author Riefenstahl, Leni.

Title The last of the Nuba / by Leni Riefenstahl
Edition First U.S. edition
Published New York : Harper & Row, [1974]

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Description 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Summary From 1962 until 1977 Riefenstahl had been living as the first white woman with a special permission issued by the Sudanese government in the remote valleys of the central Sudan among the Nuba tribe. She studied their way of life and recorded it on film and in pictures. These picture documents hold a unique anthropological, ethnological, and cultural-historical importance due to the circumstances through which the Nuba's historical way of life is approaching its irreversible end, primarily through the advance of civilization
Notes Translation of Die Nuba
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 206-207
Notes Also issued online
Subject Nuba (African people)
Nuba (African people) -- Pictorial works.
LC no. 73004120
ISBN 0002114984
0060135492
Other Titles Nuba. English