السحر والعرافات والشعوذة عند الأزاندي (Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande)

مقدمة

Evans-Pritchard published “Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande” in Oxford in 1937. It rests on about twenty months of fieldwork between 1926 and 1930 among the Azande of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The book describes witchcraft (mangu) as an inherited substance that can cause harm even without the witch being aware of it, and the poison oracle (benge), administered to chickens, which answers questions about witches and future events. A well-known example is the collapsing granary: termites explain why it fell, witchcraft why it fell just when people were sitting beneath it. Evans-Pritchard showed how contradictions are absorbed by secondary explanations. After Peter Winch’s essay of 1964 the book became a reference point of the debate on rationality and relativism.

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• 1940النوير: وصف لأنماط العيش والمؤسسات السياسية عند شعب نيلي (The Nuer)