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Zande warfare
Anthropos • 52 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 239-262
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Evans-Pritchard analyzes mainly two types of Azande warfare: (1) fairly large-scale campaigns between kingdoms, and (2) the smaller-scale raids between provinces of adjacent kingdoms. Civil wars between kingdoms are not dealt with, and wars with the Europeans and Arabs are discussed only briefly. The following dimensions of warfare are considered: its objectives and motivations, military organization, mobilization of war resources, logistics, strategies and tactics, battle organization and deployment of forces, defensive and offensive engagements, weaponry and its uses, and so forth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Military organization
- Warfare
- Weapons
- Instigation of war
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gilbert Winer ; Robert O. Lagacé ; 1968-1969
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1926-1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1865-ca. 1905
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)