Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande, by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande, by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 1976 softcover. 265 pages, nice condition (some underlining and highlighting).
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande is an abridged version of the 1937 study, one of social anthropology's most noted texts. In this work E. E. Evans-Pritchard examines the witchcraft beliefs of the Azande, 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.