Evans-Pritchard

Download or read book Evans-Pritchard written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. He wrote these works in his thirties and forties, after which time he became chair of anthropology at Oxford. His pupils and colleagues from his days as the head of Institute of Social Anthropology went from Oxford to complete the institutional establishment of social anthropology. In this book Douglas links the development of her own theories to her training under Evans-Pritchard at the institute and to the close friendship that they forged in the years after.