1st Edition

An Analysis of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

By Kitty Wheater Copyright 2017
112 Pages
by Macat Library

112 Pages
by Macat Library

104 Pages
by Macat Library

The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation. As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to understand humankind as a whole is a vastly complex task, in which nothing can be achieved without careful and incisive interpretative work. Edward Evans-Pritchard’s seminal 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles,... Read more

Ways in to the Text 

Who was Edward Evans-Pritchard? 

What does Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande Say? 

Why does Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande  Matter? 

Section 1: Influences 

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context 

Module 2: Academic Context 

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution 

Section 2: Ideas 

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas 

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses 

Module 10: The Evolving Debate 

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today 

Module 12: Where Next? 

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text 

Works Cited

Biography

Kitty Wheater is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Oxford, where her work draws on the anthropology of ethics, embodiment, and new social/religious movements to develop an ethnography of intentional personhood and embodied practice.