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Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
- Title
- Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande / E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
- Author
- Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gillies, Eva.
- Description
- xxxiii, 265 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, first published in 1977, was based on anthropological reseaches carried out in the Southern Sudan during the late 1920s. For a decade of so, the book had little discernable impact; but from the early 1950s to present day its influence has grown incalculably, so that it is now difficult even to discuss beliefs about witchcraft or sorcery without reference to it. This abridgement of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's acknowledged masterpiece is intended to make it more accessible to students and the general reader.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [255]-257.
- Contents
- Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon -- The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events -- Sufferers from misfortune seek for witches among their enemies -- Are witches conscious agents? -- Witch-doctors -- Training of a novice in the art of a witch-doctor -- The place of witch-doctors in Zande society -- The poison oracle in daily life -- Problems arising from consultation of the poison oracle -- Other Zande oracles -- Magic and medicines -- An association for the practice of magic -- Witchcraft, oracles, and magic, in the situation of death -- Appendix I. A list of terms employed in describing Zande customs and beliefs -- Appendix II. Witchcraft and dreams -- Appendix III. Other evil agents associated with witchcraft -- Appendix IV. Some reminiscences and reflections on fieldwork.
- ISBN
- 0198740298
- 9780198740292
- LCCN
- 76375196
- OCLC
- ocm02688726
- 2688726
- SCSB-68052
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library