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Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

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1937 book by E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande Author E. E. Evans-Pritchard Language English Subject Ethnography Publisher Oxford: The Clarendon Press

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1937 Media type Print

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande is one of social anthropology's most noted texts. In this work E. E. Evans-Pritchard examines the witchcraft beliefs of the Azanade, a group of agricultural people in southern Sudan on the upper Nile. There are two main points he makes in the work. One is that witchcraft can be seen as a safety valve, that releases potential harmful conflict into less damaging activities. The other is that it can be seen as an attempt to explain a complex alien world in a society's own terms of reference. Together these make for a practical solution that is consistent and rational.[1][2][3]

The work was a development of his earlier (1928). Oracle-magic of the Azande. Sudan Notes and Records, 11, 1-53..

Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1937). Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: The Clarendon Press

    I. Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon
    II. The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events
    III. Sufferers from misfortune seek for witches among their enemies
    IV. Are witches conscious agents?
    V. Witch-doctors
    VI. Training of a novice in the art of a witch-doctor
    VII. The place of witch-doctors in Zande society
    VIII. The Poison Oracle in daily life
    IX. Problems arising from consultation of the poison oracle
    X. Other Zande oracles
    XI. Magic and medicines
    XII. An association for the practice of magic
    XIII. Witchcraft, oracles, and magic, in the situation of death
  1. ^ Eriksen, T. H., & Nielsen, F. S. (2013). A history of anthropology. Pluto Press. (pp.70-71)
  2. ^ Wheater, K. (2017). An Analysis of EE Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Macat Library.
  3. ^ Otto, B. C., & Stausberg, M. (2014). Edward E. Evans-Pritchard Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. In Defining Magic (pp. 155-169). Routledge.

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