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Zande border raids

Africa27 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 217-230

By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).

Abstract
This brief article concerns the nature of border raids in four of the frontier provinces of the Gbudwe kingdom of Azande. Herein is found a valuable discussion of the following: motivations behind raids, combat preparations, aftermath of combat, raiding strategy and tactics, and other characteristics of military operations. While the article stresses more a description of actual battles and military episodes rather than an analysis of cultural-historical forces determining Azande warfare and raiding, the author does not draw the significant distinction between raids (affrays) and war campaigns: wars mobilize all or most of the territorial and social divisions of an Azande kingdom, while raids are military engagements between specific Azande or non-Azande provinces. Although not necessarily differing in objectives or operations, raids are much smaller in scale and scope than are wars. This article, however, relates neither raids nor wars to other Azande institutions.
Subjects
Instigation of war
History
Warfare
culture
Azande
HRAF PubDate
1999
Region
Africa
Sub Region
Central Africa
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Social Anthropologist
Analyst
Gilbert Winer ; 1968-1969
Field Date
1927-1930
Coverage Date
ca. 1865 - ca. 1905
Coverage Place
Gbudwe Kingdom, Sudan
Notes
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
LCCN
29010790
LCSH
Zande (African people)