E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s research while affiliated with University of London and other places

... On a vu tour à tour dans les croyances le produit obligé d'un défaut de rationalité, la manifestation d'un type spéci que d'activité mentale ou, plus récemment, dans les conceptions relativistes, intellectualistes et symbolistes, des essais rationnellement menés, mais inachevés, d'explication de l'ordre cosmique et du monde social. Or, après les ré exions critiques de Needham (1972), le concept de croyance ne saurait s'appliquer à une expérience ou à une attitude universelle, car la réalité des croyances n'est pas directement accessible à l'observation (Evans-Pritchard 1965). Il n'existe qu'un agrégat de signi cations contradictoires dont chacune, prise isolément, peut sans doute se déchiffrer dans les conceptualisations d'autres cultures mais dont il n'y a pas de raison de penser qu'aucune autre culture ne les combine différemment d'une façon aussi arbitrairement nécessaire. ...

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Histoire et dialectique des idéologies et significations religieuses

... In this period we also get our first glimpses of distinctive cultural practices which were to be recorded in ethnographies of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rare 'archaeological' notes may also be encountered, such as the construction of megalithic grave monuments in areas west of the main Nile, noted by Evans-Pritchard (1935) during the early twentieth century, although it was a practice dating back half a century and perhaps much longer. ...

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The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan

... Francia fue el medio académico más dinámico en la internacionalización de este campo de estudios. No casualmente fue paralela la escritura de una historia colectiva-nacional (Chartier y Martin, 1986-1991 que se tornó modélica y la fundación del fabuloso Institut Mémoire de l'Édition Contemporaine en 1988. Allí, en la monumental Abbayé D'Ardenne (Normandía), "están" los archivos de Hachette, Seuil, Gallimard, de decenas de editoriales famosas y no tanto, así como de científicos e intelectuales memorables, como Mauss, Foucault o Barthes. ...

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Ferias internacionales de libros.Trabajo de campo, archivo y arqueología reflexivaInternational book fairs. Fieldwork, archives and reflexive archaeology

... 6 The crucible of twentieth century social anthropology on political systems in Africa and the Pacific arose largely without much engagement with Americanist debates. Also, many of the questions which troubled scholars on African rulership, such as regicide, scapegoating, purity, and sacrifice of royals (Fortes and Evans-Pritchard 1940;de Heusch 1997) -seem to have had little purchase in Amerindian cases. ...

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Crowning affairs: sacred sovereigns in the Pre-Columbian world

... Kuper accepts that and further asserts that J. Ferguson McLennan's arguments in Primitive Marriage forced Morgan to consider a source of the classifi catory system of kinship. Both scholars see the conjectural account as a hastily drafted argument that was not integrated well in the published version (Resek 1960;Kuper 1985:1213). Trautmann points out that Morgan did not buy McLennan's book until February 1867, making the infl uence on Systems questionable (Trautmann 1987:194-204). ...

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Evolutionisms: Lewis Henry Morgan, Time, and the Question of Sociocultural Evolutionary Theory

... Other is an "stranger" who was not so much inferior or inhuman, but rather naive, simple, but to some extent noble, even pure. It is also someone who is too emotional and deviates from the applicable standards of the so-called modern world (among others Degérando, 1969;Diop 1991, Fernandez-Armesto, 2002Morgan, 2003;Sarmiento 2003;Todorov, 2010;Fox 2011). A similar ambiguity can be found for the concept of "wilderness". ...

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Savagery in right-wing populist leadership: between theatricality and political social engineering

... For decades, anthropologists investigated whether or not small-scale societies had gods that cared about how people treated each other or functioned as moral models to which individuals should aspire (Rappaport, 1979;Tylor, 1920). Largely due to the findings of anthropological fieldwork, Evans-Pritchard (1965) rendered the debate moribund. Some cross-cultural data sets (Boehm, 2008;Swanson, 1960) show that evidence of supernatural sanctions for immoral behavior is abundant in the ethnographic literature (see Figure 23.1; for more detailed analyses, see Lightner et al., in press). ...

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Moral and Religious Systems

... He sought guiding principles that held though different practices and institutions. For example, in Note de recherche n° 1 (1974), he argues that playing kisoro, a Zande and Nzakara board game, actually reenacts the strategy and tactics of Zande armies, as described by Evans-Pritchard (1971). The game board consists of four rows of eight holes; each adversary has two rows and thirty-two 'men'. ...

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Eric de Dampierre and the Art of Fieldwork

... They were also about what he missed in making the connections between the objects of analysis (the so-called primitive societies) and the European subjects (anthropologists, missionaries, colonial administrators) who were propounding these theories. Evans-Pritchard (1970) nailed this issue in asking, for instance, Who displays a decided distaste for reasoning? The "primitives" believed in their own invisible beings, but they considered ridiculous the invisible beings of the missionaries. ...

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“What even the cowherds and women know”

... Positivist research methods emphasize facts and data. Interpretive approaches, as in cultural anthropology, may focus on the different meanings different individuals or tribes attach to data (Edward Evans--Pritchard, 1981;Harris, 2001). Positivist research is directed towards revealing theory that establishes the universally agreed meaning of data. ...

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Managing and the Administrative Sciences