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Password: 5zmx Title: Azande Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic
Author: [English] Evans-prichard
Translator: Qin Lili
Douban score: 8.4
Publishing House: Commercial Press
Publication year: 20 14-6- 1
Page count: 572
Content introduction:
From 1926 to 1930, I have been to Zande area three times and lived there for about 20 months. These visits were made at the invitation of the British and Egyptian Sudanese governments. The British-Egyptian Sudanese government is the main sponsor of these visits, and it generously donated 200 pounds to support the publication of this book. I also got the Royal Society and Laura? Spelman? Rockefeller Memorial Fund Manager's help. Here, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the above-mentioned institutions and personnel.
I studied anthropology under the guidance of Professor C.G. seligman, and at his suggestion, his wife and I continued his ethnological investigation in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. I am deeply grateful to these two teachers, who led me to study Sudan and raised money for my investigation. During the whole work process, they constantly provided me with help, advice and sincere friendship. In addition, I am very grateful to Professor seligman for writing the preface to this book. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to Professor Malinowski, whose teaching has inspired me a lot.
This book is the first ethnographic masterpiece by Evans prichard, a famous British anthropologist. It is one of the most exquisite and thoughtful works in ethnography classics. Since the publication of 1937, it has been regarded as a model of ethnography by anthropologists.
The author describes the belief system of witchcraft, Oracle and magic of Azande, an indigenous tribe in Central Africa, with exquisite brushwork, and skillfully presents a kind of society and a kind of life in this description. This book makes Azande people a famous ethnic group in anthropology, sociology and philosophy, and is related to many discussions about rationality and irrationality and cultural relativism in related fields.