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Hexerei, Orakel und Magie bei den Zande.
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Suhrkamp Verlag KG, 1988

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Edward E. Evans-Pritchard

ACLS History E-Book Project, 1999

Exellent study of a little known Sufi order
An exellent study of the Sanusi Sufi order. An order that spread from the desert of Libya to Chad, that united with the Mahdi of Sudan, that fought Italian fascist under the leadership of the great Omar al-Mukhtar (he of the film Lion of the desert thought the film mentions nothing of his Sufism) fought along side the Ottomans in the 1st world war and united the Turks in the war of independance ...

Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer
Edward Evans-Pritchard

Oxford University Press, USA, 1951

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's classic writings on the Nuer of southern Sudan have made them one of the most famous peoples in ethnographic literature. When the writings were first published half a century ago, they created a new agenda for social anthropology. Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer is the second of his trilogy on the society and culture of this pastoral people. It vividly portrays the experience of growing up in a Nuer community, ...