Alur Hourglass

Aidan Southall was involved with the Alur of Uganda from 1947 to 1992. During this prolonged fieldwork associations, he recorded different versions of how generations told and interpreted their social and political structural processes; fortunes and misfortunes with witchcraft as the underlying force.

Alur Hourglass opens with the colonial past and present globalizing world in which the Alur operate. It then goes back to mythological beginnings of Alur groups. The narrators' oral inflections...