This list of references is the result of the bibliographic work in two 4-year projects in frame of a collaborative research centre funded by the German Research Foundation, SFB 586 (Difference and integration). In these projects, Prof. Richard Rottenburg, Dr. Guma Kunda Komey and Dr. Enrico Ille undertook research on the relation of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan, together with a number of other colleagues and assistants. From 2004 to 2008 this research concerned land and water rights, from 2008 to 2012 market institutions: SFB 586 - Difference + Integration . During that time, a list of mostly unpublished theses produced at the University of Khartoum up to 2010 was assembled by Amira al-Jizouli; it was included here as well. More recently, in early 2015, an extension of the bibliography and its partial transformation in an annotated bibliography was made possible by the ARUSS project of the Chr. Michelsen Institute, the University of Bergen, Khartoum University, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, and a number of regional universities in Sudan. This work was conducted by Dr. Enrico Ille and Konstantin Biehl, with support of Rania Awad and Jasmin Weinert.