1. Sally F. Moore, Law As Process: An Anthropological Approach (London: Routledge, 1978), 39.
2. Clyde J. Mitchell, “Case and Situation Analysis,” in The Manchester School. Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology, eds T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006), 23–42.
3. Deconcentrated state agents represent the authorities of the central state in a local context, in this case the Government of southern Sudan. This differs from decentralized agents who carry out tasks and are accountable to a lower level of government, for instance, the state government or a county. See Bernard Bizet, “Deconcentration versus Decentralisation of Administration in France: A Centre—Periphery Dilemma.” Canadian Journal of Regional Science XXV 3 (2002): 475–490.
4. Gérard Prunier, “Rebel Movements and Proxy Warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo.” African Affairs 103:412 (2004): 359–383;
5. Mark Leopold, “Crossing the Line: 100 Years of the North-West Uganda/South Sudan Border.” Journal of Eastern African Studies 3:3 (2009): 464–478.