User:Sugarpop2301/Bari people/Bibliography

Beckerman, Stephen "Barí ." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. . Retrieved October 01, 2020 from Encyclopedia.com:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bari

This article has information about many aspects of the Bari people of South Sudan. It discusses their location, demography, linguistic affiliation, history and cultural relations, settlements, economy, marriage, trade and so much more. Most of my first paragraph is made up of information I got from this source, specifically the information about Sabaseta and the elders in the villages. I also included information from this website about the ceremony they performed when they were visited by other tribe. The article was written by Stephen Beckerman, who doesn’t have any scholarly credentials, although he does provide a list of sources where he got his information from. Several of the titles from sources he used are in French, which means that there might be information in this article that I won’t be able to find necessarily in another source because I am not able to read or understand the French language. It was last updated on November 4th, 2020.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2012, July 13). Bari. Retrieved October 10, 2020, from 				 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bari-people

This article is about the religion of the Bari people, specifically about the two faced god that they believe in. It also includes some information about some of the ceremonial positions that the Bari had for select members of their village. This text is authoritative because it is similar to Wikipedia, in the sense that the article is written about numerous authors and is constantly being built upon. It was last edited in 2012. I included the information about the traditional god in my wikiproject, along with a sentence about animal sacrifices. I paraphrased the information, and included an in-text citation.

Seligman, C. G., and B. Z. Seligman. “The Bari.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 58, 1928, pp. 409–479. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2843631. Retrieved October 22, 2020.

This is an ethnography that I found on a JSTORE. It is a journal article and it was written in 1928. This means that the book does not include any information about the Bari and their recent transition to a Christian religion, but it does include plenty of information about some of the traditional gods and some of the rituals that were performed. This information is incredibly reliable because it comes from an ethnography, and has plenty of first hand experience about the Bari religion. The book also includes in depth information about other daily aspects of their culture, such as marriage and gender relationships. I included information about Nun, another god that the Bari believe in, and the ceremony that they performed to contact him.