Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among Azande
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Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among The Azande
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Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1976
Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among The Azande written by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with History categories.
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, first published in 1977, was based on anthropological reseaches carried out in the Southern Sudan during the late 1920s. For a decade of so, the book had little discernable impact; but from the early 1950s to present day its influence has grown incalculably, so that it is now difficult even to discuss beliefs about witchcraft or sorcery without reference to it. This abridgement of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's acknowledged masterpiece is intended to make it more accessible to students and the general reader.
Theoretical And Empirical Investigations Of Divination And Magic
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Author : Jesper Sørensen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-05-03
Theoretical And Empirical Investigations Of Divination And Magic written by Jesper Sørensen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-03 with Religion categories.
In Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic ten leading scholars of religion provide up-to-date investigations into the classic domains of divination and magic. Spanning historical, anthropological, cognitive, philosophical and theoretical chapters, the volume’s authors invite the reader to explore how divinatory practices and magical rituals, both apart and in interaction, can be reconceptualized in line with 21st century scholarship. Following an introduction addressing the ever-pertinent discussion of the status and epistemological value of the categories inherited from our scholarly predecessors, the volume includes analyses of divinatory and magic practices in particular historical areas, as well as comparative, theoretical and philosophical discussions, making this an indispensable volume for anyone interested in broader comparative approaches to magic and divination. Contributors are Lars Albinus, Edward Bever, Gideon Bohak, Corby Kelly, Lars Madsen, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Jörg Rüpke, Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen, Jørgen Podemann Sørensen, Dimitris Xygalatas.
The Azande History And Political Institutions
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Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1971
The Azande History And Political Institutions written by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Social Science categories.
Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among Azande
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Author : Edward E. Evans-Pritchard
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among Azande written by Edward E. Evans-Pritchard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
An Analysis Of E E Evans Pritchard S Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among The Azande
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Author : Kitty Wheater
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
An Analysis Of E E Evans Pritchard S Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among The Azande written by Kitty Wheater and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation. As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to understand humankind as a whole is a vastly complex task, in which nothing can be achieved without careful and incisive interpretative work. Edward Evans-Pritchard’s seminal 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande is a model contribution to anthropology’s grand interpretative project, and one whose success is based largely on its author’s thinking skills. A major issue in anthropology at the time was the common assumption that the faiths and customs of other cultures appeared irrational or illogical when compared to the “civilized” and scientific beliefs of the western world. Evans-Pritchard sought to challenge such definitions by embedding himself within a tribal culture in Africa – that of the Azande – and attempting to understand their beliefs in their proper contexts. By doing so, Evans-Pritchard proved just how vital context is to interpretation. Seen within their context, he was able to show, the beliefs of the Azande were far from irrational – and magic actually formed a coherent system that helped mould a functional community and society for the tribe. Evans-Pritchard’s efforts to clarify meaning in this way have proved hugely influential, and have played a major part in guiding later generations of anthropologists from his day to ours.
Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among Azande
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Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
Witchcraft Oracles And Magic Among Azande written by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with categories.
Magic S Reason
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Author : Graham M. Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-12-06
Magic S Reason written by Graham M. Jones and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-06 with History categories.
In Magic’s Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and rationality. It is no historical accident, for example, that colonial ethnographers drew analogies between Western magicians and native ritual performers, who, in their view, hoodwinked gullible people into believing their sleight of hand was divine. Using French magicians’ engagements with North African ritual performers as a case study, Jones shows how magic became enshrined in anthropological reasoning. Acknowledging the residue of magic’s colonial origins doesn’t require us to dispense with it. Rather, through this radical reassessment of classic anthropological ideas, Magic’s Reason develops a new perspective on the promise and peril of cross-cultural comparison.
Kupilikula
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Author : Harry G. West
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-09-05
Kupilikula written by Harry G. West and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-05 with History categories.
On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and counter-sorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party—still in power after three electoral cycles—has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now, when the lions prowl plateau villages ,suspected sorcerers are often lynched. In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kupilikula" sorcerers' destructive attacks by practicing a constructive form of counter-sorcery themselves. Kupilikula argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.
The Anthropological Lens
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Author : Christopher Morton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-08
The Anthropological Lens written by Christopher Morton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-08 with Social Science categories.
Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973) is widely considered the most influential British anthropologist of the twentieth century, known to generations of students for his seminal works on South Sudanese ethnography Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937) and The Nuer (OUP 1940). In these works, now classics in the anthropological literature, Evans-Pritchard broke new ground on questions of rationality, social accountability, kinship, social and political organization, and religion, as well as influentially moving the discipline in Britain away from the natural sciences and towards history. Yet despite much discussion about his theoretical contributions to anthropology, no study has yet explored his fieldwork in detail in order to get a better understanding of its historical contexts, local circumstances or the social encounters out of which it emerged. This book then is just such an exploration, of Evans-Pritchard the fieldworker through the lens of his fieldwork photography. Through an engagement with his photographic archive, and by thinking with it alongside his written ethnographies and other unpublished evidence, the book offers a new insight into the way in which Evans-Pritchard's theoretical contributions to the discipline were shaped by his fieldwork and the numerous local people in Africa with whom he collaborated. By writing history through field photographs we move back towards the fieldwork experiences, exploring the vivid traces, lived realities and local presences at the heart of the social encounter that formed the basis of Evans-Pritchard's anthropology.