E E Evans-Pritchard
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 79933 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E E Evans-Pritchard |
| NOMBRES | E E |
| APELLIDO | Evans-Pritchard |
| FIRMA | EVANS-PRITCHARD E E |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 133 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1724 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1928 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
This description of the political system of the Anuak is part of the results of two expeditions by the author to East Africa in 1940. Although Anuak country had been visited in 1855 by the Maltese Andrea Debono and Philippe Terranuova D'Antonio and by several other European travellers thirty to forty years ago, the Italian Bottego (1897),the French missions under De Bonchamps (1897) and Faivre {1898),Wellby (l899), Austin (1900), the German Oscar…
Social Anthropology
This Routledge Classics edition brings back into print a collection of Evans-Pritchard's most influential essays. Ranging widely in subject matter from anthropology and history to religion and politics, the essays reveal the breadth of his scholarship and the incisiveness of his thought. Social anthropology, Evans-Pritchard argues, should be viewed as a kind of historiography, and he demonstrates how it can illuminate social organization, witchcr…
The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan
Previous articleNext article FreeThe divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan The Frazer Lecture, 1948E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARDE. E. EVANS-PRITCHARDPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIntroductionThe central theme of The Golden Bough was the divine kingship, and it has seemed to me appropriate that a lecture establish…
Anthropologie sociale
Une bibliothà ̈que numérique unique et originale dans le monde francophone en sciences sociales et humaines, développée en collaboration avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, fondée et dirigée par Jean-Marie Tremblay, bénévole, professeur de sociologie au département des sciences humaines du Cégep de Chicoutimi
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Kinship and marriage among the Nuer
A History of Anthropological Thought
A History of Anthropological Thought
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande
Las teorías de la religión primitiva
Man and Woman among the Azande
Man and Woman Among the Azande
Four Zande texts
Having been in the first instance a classical scholar, Wilfred Whiteley well knew how important vernacular texts are for an understanding of a people's thought and values. He was also that rare combination of anthropologist and linguist and saw therefore in texts much more than phonetic, grammatical, lexicographical, and other purely linguistic problems, but also the semantic, which in effect means ethnographical, questions raised by them. He saw…
Some Recollections on Fieldwork in the Twenties
I was recently asked by my friend Meyer Fortes to give a talk at Cambridge to his students about what fieldwork was like in Africa-the Sudan in my case-half a century ago, to me only yesterday, but to students of today, no doubt the distant past. What I have jotted down is a little bit of anthropological history. That I must speak about myself, obviously, cannot be avoided. I have recently published in the journal of the Anthropological Society o…
Some Zande Texts on Vengeance for Death
Opening ParagraphI have sometimes felt that my book on Zande witchcraft beliefs and practices did not finish the story-what happens at death and afterwards. I hope to be able to complete this last chapter in the near future-a chapter to which Fr. Giorgetti (F. Gero) has contributed in his Death among the Azande of the Sudan (1968), a translation from the Italian Morte e religione della morte tragli Azande del Sudan. In the meantime, and because I…
Religion and the Anthropologists
Zande String Figures
ZANDE string figures are called akandago and they are said to be a very old Mbomu game (Ambomu nana tu e). Those recorded in this article were recorded by me over forty years ago among the Azande of the Sudan. It is almost as long ago since I taught them to my old friend the late Professor R. M. Dawkins who, like Haddon, was a string figure enthusiast. We had intended writing a joint article on them and it was to this end that Professor Dawkins t…
La femme dans les sociétés primitives et autres essais d'anthropologie sociale
The Azande
La storia delle religioni
A Zande Matrimonial Problem
For the first few months of our marriage she acted well towards me. She hoed her small garden, spoke to me respectfully and liked to play and flirt with me. Then her attitude changed; she no longer went about her work and when I tried to play with her she showed herself cold. In many small ways I could tell that she had taken to herself a lover; for amongst us who are Azande in our country a husband knows by many small signs that he has lost the …
The Sociology of Comte
A Zande Funeral Custom
I am trying to get into print what is left over from my research among the Azande of the Sudan; otherwise it will be lost for ever. This note is about a custom at funerals not, I think, recorded before a reference was made to it in Fr Giorgetti's book (Gero I962). His facts are correct, his interpretation of them, in my opinion, incorrect. He says that what the wives of sons do at a funeral of their father-in-law has the intention of paying him r…
Zande Bridewealth
Opening ParagraphThis paper was drafted many years ago and it was against the background of this and other unpublished material that I came to the view about the nature of bride-wealth indicated in my paper 'Social Character of Bride-Wealth, with Special Reference to the Azande' (Man, 1934, 194
Social Anthropology
This Routledge Classics edition brings back into print a collection of Evans-Pritchard's most influential essays. Ranging widely in subject matter from anthropology and history to religion and politics, the essays reveal the breadth of his scholarship and the incisiveness of his thought. Social anthropology, Evans-Pritchard argues, should be viewed as a kind of historiography, and he demonstrates how it can illuminate social organization, witchcr…
Kinship and marriage among the Nuer
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
The Sanusi of Cyrenaica.
The Sanusi of Cyrenaica
Opening ParagraphIn August 1944, after more than twenty years of exile, His Eminence al-Sayyid Muhammad Idris, the Head of the Islamic Order of the Sanusiya, paid a visit to Cyrenaica as the guest of the British Administration of that country. The following account of the Sanusi of Cyrenaica may be of interest, since though the Sanusi became well known to us during the last war, and even better known during the present war, in which they have bee…
Nuer Time-Reckoning
Opening ParagraphAll Europeans who have lived among the Nuer have, I suppose, found difficulty in discussing with them any matter involving an estimate of time. I do not refer to such a simple arrangement as meeting a Nuer at a certain hour on a certain day. The idiomatic technique necessary to effect a meeting is soon learnt, after a few disasters have taught one not to translate European time-reckoning too literally. I refer to conceptual diffe…
Theories of primitive religion
The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan
Previous articleNext article FreeThe divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan The Frazer Lecture, 1948E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARDE. E. EVANS-PRITCHARDPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIntroductionThe central theme of The Golden Bough was the divine kingship, and it has seemed to me appropriate that a lecture establish…
Social Anthropology
The Social Institutions of the Kipsigis
Applied Anthropology
I Do Not intend to say to-night all over again what has been said many times before in admirable addresses to learned societies. I propose only to bring to your notice some features of the subject which have often been overlooked or disregarded and yet seem to me to be important.May I in the first place mention the confusion which frequently arises when someone asks whether social anthropology can, or should be, an applied science. It is evident …
The Meaning of Sacrifice Among the Nuer
THE MAIN C O NC LUSI ONs reached in earlier accounts of Nuer sacrifice (Crazzolara 1949; Evans-Pritchard I95I, 1953a, b) are as follows: (i) There are two broad types of sacrifice, the confirmatory type which is chiefly concerned with social relations changes of social status and the interaction of social groups and the piacular type which is concerned rather with the moral and physical welfare of the individual. Our attention is here mostly dire…
Zande Blood-Brotherhood
Blood-Brotherhood is a pact of alliance formed between two persons by a ritual act in which each swallows the blood of the other. The pact is one of mutual assistance and is backed by powerful sanctions. It may bind only the two participants to certain obligations, or it may also involve the social groups of which they are members. Alliances based on exchange of blood have been recorded from many parts of the world, especially from Africa where t…
"An Alternative Term for "Bride-Price
The Dance
In ethnological accounts the dance is usually given a place quite unworthy of its social importance. It is often viewed as an independent activity and is described without reference to its contextual setting in native life. Such treatment leaves out many problems as to composition and organization of the dance and hides from view its sociological function
The Azande
Burial and Mortuary Rites of the Nuer
Journal Article Burial and Mortuary Rites of the Nuer Get access E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD, Ph.D. E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD, Ph.D. PROFESSOR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 190, January 1949, Pages 56-63, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093693 Published: 01 January 1949
Witchcraft
Opening ParagraphThere are few, if any, African societies which do not believe in witchcraft of one type or another. These types can be classified and their areas of distribution marked out. Thus we have the 'evil eye' type, the likundu type, and the kindoki type, and doubtless other variations could be distinguished. But though some notion which we can describe as a belief in witchcraft is found in maybe every African society it is far from play…
A History of Anthropological Thought
The Sacrificial Role of Cattle Among the Nuer
Opening ParagraphIn my two books on the Nuer I gave some account of the importance of cattle in their economy and social life. I scarcely mentioned their role in religion as I did not wish to stray too far from the topics I was then discussing. I summarize very briefly what was said there before discussing their religious significance
Marriage Customs of the Luo of Kenya
Opening ParagraphThis paper forms part of a short general account of the Luo based on a rapid survey made in 1936. The survey was financed by the Leverhulme Grants Committee. An earlier part, describing the political structure of the Luo, has recently appeared in another journal.Apart from information provided by Father Hartmann and a fuller account by Mr. K. C. Shaw, early accounts of Luo marriage are slight, and in some cases misleading. Mr. Sh…
The Political Structure of the Nandi-Speaking Peoples of Kenya
This paper is an attempt to analyse briefly the literature on the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya with the object of noting structural similarities and differences between them. In particular the inquiry is directed to discovering whether their political structures conform to the same general type
Some Collective Expressions of Obscenity in Africa
The Zande Trickster
Sorcery and Native Opinion
Opening ParagraphIt is important to understand native opinion about black magic, not only for the anthropologist but also for the colonial administrator and missionary, if they wish to show to the peoples whom they govern and teach that they understand their notions about right and wrong. The native does not so much distrust European justice and education as he despairs of the administrator and missionary ever understanding, or attempting to unde…
Avokaiya Fishing
The Dance
In ethnological accounts the dance is usually given a place quite unworthy of its social importance. It is often viewed as an independent activity and is described without reference to its contextual setting in native life. Such treatment leaves out many problems as to composition and organization of the dance and hides from view its sociological function
La Danse
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Some Collective Expressions of Obscenity in Africa
The Study of Kinship in Primitive Societies
"An Alternative Term for "Bride-Price
Sorcery and Native Opinion
Opening ParagraphIt is important to understand native opinion about black magic, not only for the anthropologist but also for the colonial administrator and missionary, if they wish to show to the peoples whom they govern and teach that they understand their notions about right and wrong. The native does not so much distrust European justice and education as he despairs of the administrator and missionary ever understanding, or attempting to unde…
The Zande Corporation of Witchdoctors
The Nature of Kinship Extensions
Methods of Hand-Spinning in Egypt and the Sudan
Journal Article Methods of Hand-Spinning in Egypt and the Sudan Get access Methods of Hand-Spinning in Egypt and the Sudan. By Grace M. Crowfoot. Bankfield Museum Notes. Second Series, No. 12. 1931. Pp. 51; illust. 3s. E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXII, Issue CXXVII, April 1933, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afr…
Zande Blood-Brotherhood
Blood-Brotherhood is a pact of alliance formed between two persons by a ritual act in which each swallows the blood of the other. The pact is one of mutual assistance and is backed by powerful sanctions. It may bind only the two participants to certain obligations, or it may also involve the social groups of which they are members. Alliances based on exchange of blood have been recorded from many parts of the world, especially from Africa where t…
Imagery in Nģok Dinka Cattle-Names
The Nilotes refer to their cattle in a number of ways, and one of these is by colour or interrelation of colours which are associated in their minds with some animal or bird or reptile. Their cattle are thus called by colour-analogy crocodile cow, fish eagle cow, leopard cow, and so on. The Dinka go even farther and make a double analogy in referring to their cattle by terms which suggest some activity associated with, or some attribute of, the c…
Social Character of Bride-Wealth, with Special Reference to the Azande
Megalithic Grave-Monuments in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and other parts of East Africa
This note describes megalithic grave-monuments among the Mise tribe to the west of the Nile in Amadi District of Mongalla Province, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. I visited this tribe in the early part of 1927. The megalithic monuments described are typical of Mise country. They may be found occasionally among other members of the southern group, the Oggi and Endri, but there possibl they mark the graves of Mise who have died out of their count . The Kede…
Witchcraft
Opening ParagraphThere are few, if any, African societies which do not believe in witchcraft of one type or another. These types can be classified and their areas of distribution marked out. Thus we have the 'evil eye' type, the likundu type, and the kindoki type, and doubtless other variations could be distinguished. But though some notion which we can describe as a belief in witchcraft is found in maybe every African society it is far from play…
Exogamous Rules Among the Nuer
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
Nuer Time-Reckoning
Opening ParagraphAll Europeans who have lived among the Nuer have, I suppose, found difficulty in discussing with them any matter involving an estimate of time. I do not refer to such a simple arrangement as meeting a Nuer at a certain hour on a certain day. The idiomatic technique necessary to effect a meeting is soon learnt, after a few disasters have taught one not to translate European time-reckoning too literally. I refer to conceptual diffe…
Bibliographical Note on the Ethnology of the Southern Sudan
The Sudan falls into two distinct cultural parts: the Arabicspeaking Islamic peoples of the north and the heterogeneous pagan peoples of the south. This note is intended as a short guide to those who, while not themselves specialists, desire to know what ethnological research has been done in the Southern Sudan, where the results of this research are to be found, and the point investigations have reached at the time of writing
African Political Systems
Nee potuisset adhue perducere saecla
The Relationship Between the Anuak and the Fori (Sudan)
The Political Structure of the Nandi-Speaking Peoples of Kenya
This paper is an attempt to analyse briefly the literature on the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya with the object of noting structural similarities and differences between them. In particular the inquiry is directed to discovering whether their political structures conform to the same general type
The Social Institutions of the Kipsigis
The Nuer
Arab Status in Cyrenaica under the Italians
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