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Douglas, Mary: Edward Evans-Pritchard. Modern Masters. New York: The Viking Press, 1980. ISBN: 0670289787
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - Acknowledgments -- Biographical Note -- Introduction -- Human Mental Faculties -- The Continuity of -- Evans-Pritchard's Program -- Fieldwork Methods -- Accountability among the Azande -- Accountability among the Nuer -- Reasoning and Memory -- Nuer Religion -- Contradiction -- Evans-Pritchard's Contemporary Influence -- Short Bibliography -- Index. - "When Evans-Pritchard wrote about beliefs and meanings he assumed straight forwardly that a statement would only be counted as a belief if actions were consistently observed to be consistent with its truth. His teaching implied that a consensual commitment to a way of life is inherently a commitment to a way of thought and vice versa.... "Now that the air has cleared and now that philosophers have worked through the pitfalls of earlier controversies, Evans-Pritchard emerges from the past as if he had, impossibly, been reared in a modern theory of knowledge.... He was legitimately ahead of the game because of a powerful insight and patient reasoning." -Mary Douglas. - The great English anthropologist Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973), the author of the classic Nuer Religion, is known for his pioneering fieldwork among the Azande and Nuer tribes of Africa during the thirties and forties. But his contribution to modern anthropology, as Mary Douglas argues in this account of his life and works, was far greater than descriptive studies of tribal behavior: in his writings on social accountability, cognition, and the sociology of religion, Evans-Pritchard was the first to confront philosophical problems that are central to the work of anthropologists and social scientists today. At the beginning of Evans-Pritchard's career, anthropology was engrossed in nineteenth-century speculations about "primitive" mentality; by the time of his death, it had grown into a structured and philosophically grounded study of the nature of society, culture, language, and thought, which not only sheds light on exotic tribal cultures but illuminates our own as well. This transformation was due in large part to the scrupulous and systematic observation and imaginative and penetrating analysis that characterized Evans-Pritchard's work. Mary Douglas, herself an eminent anthropologist and a former student of Evans-Pritchard, approaches his work thematically, tracing the development of his ideas, placing them in historical context, and demonstrating their lasting influence both within the field of anthropology and far beyond it. ISBN 0670289787, ISBN-13: 9780670289783

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[SW: Evans-Pritchard, Anthropologe, anthropologist, Biographie]

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Beidleman, T: The Ox and Nuer sacrifice: some freudian hypotheses about Nuer symbolism.

Academic Journal Offprint from - Journ. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (MAN) 1, No.4, 1966. The Ox and Nuer sacrifice: some freudian hypotheses about Nuer symbolism.

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Evans-Pritchard, E.E. Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer, London Oxford University Press 1984
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Study of sexual and marital customs of the Nuer people of Sudan in Central Africa. Seventh Printing Good Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library

[SW: ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNOLOGY FOLKLORE EDWARD EVANS-PRITCHARD SOCIOLOGY CENTRAL AFRICA EROTICA SEXOLOGY SEXUALITY RELATIONSHIPS SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR KINSHIP FAMILY EGYPT SUDAN NILE MARRIAGE NUER DEMOGRAPHY DEMOGRAPHICS POPULATIONSocial History, Politics & Sociology]

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Howell, P.P. A Manual of Nuer Law; Being an account of Customary Law, its Evolution and Development in the Courts established by the Sudan Government, London: Oxford University Press, 1954

Hard bound, red cloth, first edition, frontispiece of Lak Nuer and his Song-Bull, 256pp includes glossary, bibliography, and index. Ex-library copy moderately worn along spine, spine ends, and corners. 495 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[SW: Howell Manual Nuer Law; Customary Law Evolution Development Sudan Government]

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