What happened to the Nuer after Evans-Pritchard left? Nuer Dilemmas tell us not through an historical narrative, but as an ethnography of debate. Sharon Hutchinson traces the struggles of South Sudanese Nuer men and women to cope with the immense social, political, economic and religious transformations wrought by more than six decades of turbulent history that spanned a quarter century of British colonial rule (1929-55) as well as two devastating civil wars (1955-72 and 1983-2005). The book foregrounds cultural values, concepts and practices that Nuer men and women perceived as changing and were in the process of collectively redefining and reevaluating during the 1980s and early 1990s.