Book
Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande
Clarendon Press • Oxford • Published In 1937 • Pages:
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is the outstanding source on Azande witchcraft, and also contains much general information on social organization. Magic, witchcraft and oracles are the predominating interests in the culture. Evans-Pritchard studied the relations of these beliefs and practices to one another to show that they form an ideational system and how this is reflected in social behavior. Evans-Pritchard made three expeditions to Zandeland, where in all he resided for twenty months.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sorcery
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Ethnopsychology
- Magicians and diviners
- Revelation and divination
- Magical and mental therapy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Katherine Schlesinger ; John Beierle ; 1997
- 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
- 1926-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zande District, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard ; foreword C. G. Seligman
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38005545
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)