| Description |
xxxiii, 265 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Evans-Pritchard explores the importance of witchcraft to the Azande community in Sudan, Africa. |
| Contents |
Witchcraft -- witch-doctors -- oracles -- magic |
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Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon -- The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events -- Sufferers from misfortune seek for witches among their enemies -- Are witches conscious agents? -- Witch-doctors -- Training of a novice in the art of a witch-doctor -- The place of witch-doctors in Zande society -- The poison oracle in daily life -- Problems arising from consultation of the poison oracle -- Other Zande oracles -- Magic and medicines -- An association for the practice of magic -- Witchcraft, oracles, and magic, in the situation of death -- Appendix I. A list of terms employed in describing Zande customs and beliefs -- Appendix II. Witchcraft and dreams -- Appendix III. Other evil agents associated with witchcraft -- Appendix IV. Some reminiscences and reflections on fieldwork |
| Analysis |
Sudan Equatoria Azande Magic & witchcraft ca 1925-ca 1930 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [255]-257 |
| Subject |
Magic -- Africa, Central.
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
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Witchcraft -- Africa, Central.
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Oracles.
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Zande (African people)
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| Reading List |
ASS101 prescribed text 2024
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| Author |
Gillies, Eva.
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| LC no. |
76375196 |
| ISBN |
0198740298 |
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