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A final contribution to the study of Zande culture
Africa • 35 • Published In 1965 • Pages: 1-7
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this short article, Evans-Pritchard discusses the historical origins of several Azande institutions: secret medicine societies, body mutilation and circumcision, burial and mortuary forms, and some vocabulary items. He argues that these traits, and perhaps many others as well, were not internal developments but probably derive from foreign contact and acculturation during the periods of Azande conquests and invasions. While his evidence for the derivation of these institutions is by no means conclusive of definitive, the fact that the Azande have had intensive external relations with other societies, through trade or warfare, at least indirectly supports the idea of acculturation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Magicians and diviners
- Body alterations
- Burial practices and funerals
- Linguistic identification
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gilbert Winer ; 1968-1969
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927-1930
- 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)