Zande Kings and Princes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2581603 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E E Evans-Pritchard, E E Evans‐pritchard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 61 |
| Publication date | 1957-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3316548 |
| OpenAlex | W2066598433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
All who have been in contact with the Azande people of Central Africa have remarked on the bearing of their rulers, the Avongara clan, and they have often given us a sketch of their appearance and an estimate of their character and intelligence. I have myself met many members of this ruling house and I have been most impressed by--in general, for not all are alike-their proud bearing, their politeness, fastidiousness, reticence, even shyness; their intelligence, sharpened by suspicion of Europeans to cunning; their conservative clinging to tradition, a demeanour and manners unsurpassed by any aristocracy in the world, even among those who have no political position, and a superiority which requires for its acceptance neither display of force nor ornament; the ability to take in a situation and assess a man quickly and decisively, combined with, among those with power, the capacity to act decisively and with great severity-some would say cruelty-when that is required; and in some cases a nervous aloofness, a self-consciousness, a loneliness, which are sometimes almost pathological; and a tendency in middle age to corpulency, the result of a life of ease, absence of exercise, venery, and beer. These characteristics are, of course, a product of their social status. Even under European rule their prestige was quite considerable and their power, though curbed by alien governments, was strongly exercised behind the scenes; their subjects, in spite of European efforts to undermine their dominion, continuing to submit to them to the point of subservience. I never heard a commoner question their authority. I was not, of course, able to meet an independent Zande king. All had lost their independence over twenty years before I first visited their country in 1927. I obtained detailed accounts of one such king, Gbudwe, from many of his erstwhile subjects, among whom I lived for many months in the Sudan (what was the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). I have recently published a descrip
Aesthetics · Aristocracy (class · Clan · Dominion · Nobility · Politeness · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1963 - 2024 (62) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |