Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
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 vale. 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 within in a society's own terms of reference. Together these make for a practical solution that is consistent and rational. [1][2][3]
| Author | E. E. Evans-Pritchard |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Ethnography |
| Publisher | Oxford: The Clarendon Press |
Publication date | 1937 |
| Media type |
The work was a development of his earlier (1928). Oracle-magic of the Azande. Sudan Notes and Records, 11, 1-53..
The book
editEvans-Pritchard, E.E. (1937). Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: The Clarendon Press
Contents
edit- 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
References
edit- ^ Eriksen, T. H., & Nielsen, F. S. (2013). A history of anthropology. Pluto Press. (pp.70-71)
- ^ Wheater, K. (2017). An Analysis of EE Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Macat Library.
- ^ Otto, B. C., & Stausberg, M. (2014). Edward E. Evans-Pritchard Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. In Defining Magic (pp. 155-169). Routledge.