ABSTRACT
A few days after death, the gwan buthni, the ritual expert of the lineage, makes a sacrifice and cleanses the people of the homestead. The ghost (joak) is told not to trouble the living. Same believe that spirits live in the sky, others that they continue to live under the earth the same kind of life as they lived when alive. (2)·
The Burun inhabit the regions between the White and Blue Niles in the province of Dar Fung. The country is a flat plain, with rocky hills emerging from it. These jebels are in sorne cases of considerable size and, wherever there is water in or near them, they have settlements on them. The populations of the hills have been considerably affected by foreign influence over a lang period of time and, as a consequence, are very mixed. The Burun-speaking peoples may be divided into two grour~:
The Northern Burun, comprising the settlements on hills Maiak, Surkum, Jerok, Mufwa, Kurmuk, Kudul, Ragreig, Abuldugu, Mughaja, and Tullok;
7he SOuthern Burun, comprising the Meban of the southern plains, the dwellers on hills Ulu and Gerwai and the Jumjum on hills Tunya, Terta, Wade ga ilIld along Khor Juinjum. The following account is a brief~ummary of the information available
Evans-Pritchard, U(anda Journal, 1936, Vol.III, No.3, p.233. Evans-Pritchard, A1rican A//airs, 1949, Vol.48, p.S7.
