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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).
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Central Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Gilbert Winer ; 1968-1969
- Field Date
- 1927-1930
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1865 - ca. 1905
- Coverage Place
- Sudan
- Notes
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- LCCN
- 29010790
- LCSH
- Zande (African people)