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

ISBN-13: 9781912302048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 104 str.

Wheater, Kitty

Opis

Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard's work became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft. Although the book had little impact when it first appeared in 1937, its popularity grew after World War II and its influence on anthropology is still strong nearly 80 years later.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.