A Reference Bibliography of Edward E. Evans-Prichard

A. Selected Works by Evans-Pritchard

Note: For a full bibliography, see A bibliography of the writings of E.E. Evans-Pritchard (London: Tavistock, 1974)

  1929  "The morphology and function of magic: a comparative study of Trobriand and Zande ritual and spells," American Anthropologist 31 : 618-641.

  1933  "The Nuer tribe and clan (I)," Sudan Notes and Records 16 (1) : 1-53.

  1934  "The Nuer tribe and clan (II)," Sudan Notes and Records 17 (1) : 1-57.

  1935  "The Nuer tribe and clan (III)," Sudan Notes and Records 18 (1) : 37-87.

  1936  "Nuer age-sets," Sudan Notes and Records 19 (2) : 233-271.

  1937  "Economic life of the Nuer: cattle (part I)," Sudan Notes and Records 20 (3) : 209-245.

  1937  Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  1938  "Economic life of the Nuer (II)," Sudan Notes and Records 21 (1) : 31-77.

  1939  "Nuer time-reckoning," Africa 12:189-216.

  1940  The Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. London: P. Lund, Humphries for London School of Economics and Political Science.

  1940  The political system of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. London: Percy Lund, Humphries for London School of Economics.

  1940  The Nuer: a description of the modes of livelihood and political institutions of a Nilotic people. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  1940  The Nuer of southern Sudan. In Meyer Fortes and Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, African political systems. 272-296. London: Oxford University Press.

  1946  "Applied anthropology," Africa 16(1):92-981.

  1947  "Further observations on the political system of the Anuak," Sudan Notes and Records 28 : 62-97.

  1948  The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  1949  The Sanusi of Cyrenaica. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  1950  "Social anthropology, past and present," Man 50:118-124.

  1950  Kinship and the local community among the Nuer. In A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and C. Daryll Forde, African systems of kinship and marriage. . London: Oxford University Press.

  1951  Kinship and marriage among the Nuer. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  1951  Social anthropology. London: Cohen and West.

  1953  "The Nuer concept of spirit in its relation to the social order," American Anthropologist 55(2):201-214.

  1954  "A problem of Nuer religious thought," Sociologus 4 (1) : 23-41.

  1956  Nuer religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  1957  "Zande warfare," Anthropos 52 : 239-262.

  1957  "Zande border raids," Africa 27 : 217-231.

  1958  Preface. In John Middleton and David Tait, Tribes without rulers: studies in African segmentary systems. ix-xi. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  1961  Anthropology and history. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

  1962  Anthropology and history. In Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, Social anthropology and other essays. 172-263. London: Faber and Faber.

  1962  Sanza: a characteristic feature of Zande language and thought. In his Essays in social anthropology. . London: Faber and Faber.

  1964  Social anthropology and other essays. New York: Free Press.

  1965  Theories of primitive religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press <imprint: Clarendon>.

  1969  Preface. In Joseph-Marie Degèrando, The observation of savage peoples. ix-x. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

  1970  "Social anthropology at Oxford," Man <N.S.> 5 : 704

  1971  The Azande: history and political institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  1971  "Sources, with particular reference to the southern Sudan," Cahiers d'etudes Africaines 11 (1) : 129-179.

  1973  "Genesis of a social anthropologist--an autobiographical note," New Diffusionist 3 : 17-32.

  1973  Man and woman among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  1973  "Operations in the Akobo and Gila Rivers, 1940-1941," The Army Quarterly 103 (4) : 470-479.

  1973  "Some reminiscences and reflections on fieldwork," Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 4 : 1-12.

  1973  "Some recollections on fieldwork in the Twenties," Anthropological Quarterly 46 : 235-242.

  1976  Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  1981  A history of anthropological thought. New York: Basic.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward E. and Fred Eggan (ed.)

  1952  Structure and function in primitive society. London: Cohen and West.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward E. and Eggan, Fred

  1952  Foreword. In A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Structure and function in primitive society. v-vi. London: Cohen and West.

B. Some references about Evans-Pritchard and his works

Arens, William

  1979  "The divine kingship of the Shilluk: a contemporary re-evaluation," Ethnos 3 : 167-181.

  1983  "Evans-Pritchard and the prophets: comments on the ethnographic enigma," Anthropos 78 (1) : 1-15.

  1984  "The demise of kings and the meaning of kingship: royal fenerary ceremony in the contemporary Sudan and Renaissance France," Anthropos 79 : 355-367.

Barnes, J. A.

  1988  "Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, 1902-1973," Proceedings of the British Academy 73 : 447-490.

Beattie, John H. M. and Geoffrey Lienhardt (ed.)

  1975  Studies in social anthropology: essays in memory of E. E. Evans-Pritchard by his former Oxford colleagues. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Beidelman, Thomas O. (ed.)

  1971  The translation of culture: essays presented to E. E. Evans-Pritchard. London: Tavistock.

Beidelman, Thomas O.

  1974  "Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard: an appreciation," Anthropos 69 : 553-567.

  1974  Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard: a biographical sketch. In A bibliography of the writings of E.E. Evans-Pritchard. 1-13. London: Tavistock.

  1980  "Evans-Pritchard," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 18 : 176-180.

Bidney, David

  1967  Evans-Pritchard on social anthropology as a kind of historiography. In David Bidney, Theoretical anthropology. 260-26887. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Bonte, Pierre

  1981  Marxist theory and anthropological analysis: the study of nomadic pastoralist societies. In Joel S. Kahn and J. R. Llobera, The anthropology of precapitalist societies. 22-56. London: Macmillan.

Burton, John W.

  1974  "Some Nuer notions of purity and danger," Anthropos 69 : 517-536.

  1983  "Same time, same space: observations on the morality of kinship in pastoral, Nilotic societies," Ethnology 22 (2) : 109-119.

  1983  "The ghost of Malinowski in the southern Sudan: Evans-Pritchard and ethnographic fieldwork," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 127 (4) : 278-289.

  1992  An introduction to Evans-Pritchard. Freibourg, Switzerland: University Press.

Collins, Robert O.

  1971  Land beyond the rivers: the southern Sudan, 1898-1918. New Haven: Yale University Press.

  1983  Shadows in the grass: Britain in the southern Sudan, 1918-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Cunnison, Ian G. and Wendy James (ed.)

  1972  Essays in Sudan ethnography. New York: Humanities Press.

Douglas, Mary

  1967  "Witch beliefs in central Africa," Africa 37 (1) : 72-80.

  1970  Introduction: thirty years after Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic. In her Witchcraft confessions and accusations. xiii-xxxviii. London: Tavistock.

  1980  Edward Evans-Pritchard. New York: Penguin Books.

Dresch, Paul

  1988  "Segmentation: its roots in Arabia and its flowering elsewhere," Cultural Anthropology 3 (1) : 50-67.

Evens, Terence M. S.

  1978  "Leopard skins and paper tigers: "choice" an "social structure" in The Nuer," Man <N.S.> 13 : 100-116.

  1982  "Two concepts of "society as moral system": Evans-Pritchard's heterodoxy," Man <N.S.> 17 : 331-388.

  1983  "Mind, logic, and the efficacy of the Nuer incest prohibition," Man 18 : 111-133.

Firth, Raymond

  1952  "Review of E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Social Anthropology," Man 52 : 37-39.

  1966  "Twins, bird, and vegetables: problems of identification in primitive religious thought," Man <N.S.> 1 (1) : 1-17.

Fortes, Meyer

  1979  Preface. In Ladislav Holy, Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered. . Belfast: Department of Social Anthropology, Queen's University of Belfast.

Free, Tony

  1988  "Conceptions of power and Evans-Pritchard's Nuer ethnography," Edinburgh Anthropology 2 : 105-139.

  1990  "Written or living culture?," Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21 (1) : 51-65.

  1991  "The politics and philosophical genealogy of Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer," Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 22 (1) : 19-39.

Geertz, Clifford

  1988  Slide show: Evans-Pritchard's African transparencies. In his Works and lives: the anthropologist as author. 49-72. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Gell, Alfred

  1992  The anthropology of time: cultural constuctions of temporal maps and images. London and Providence: Berg.

Gellner, Ernest

  1970  Concepts and society. In Bryan R. Wilson, Rationality. 18-49. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

  1995  The politics of anthropology. In his Anthropology and politics: revolutions in the sacred grove. 11-26. Oxford (UK) and Cambridge (USA): Blackwell.

  1981  Introduction. In Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, A history of anthropological theory. xiii-xxxvi. New York: Basic Books.

Gluckman, Max

  1949  "Social beliefs and individual thinking in tribal society," Memoirs of the Manchester Literary Society 91 (5) : 73-98.

  1956  The logic of witchcraft. In his Custom and conflict in Africa. 81-108. London: Basil Blackwell.

  1956  The peace in the feud. In anonymous, Custom and conflict in Africa. 1-26. London: Basil Blackwell.

Herzfeld, Michael

  1992  Textual form and social formation in Evans-Pritchard and Levi-Strauss. In Richard Harvey Brown, Writing the social text: poetics and politics in social science discourse. 53-70. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

  2003  The unspeakable in pursuit of the ineffable: representations of untranslatability in ethnographic discourse. In Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman, Translating Cultures: Perspectives on Translation and anthropology. 109-134. Oxford and New York: Berg Press.

Holy, Ladislav

  1979  The segmentary lineage structure and its existential status. In Ladislav Holy, Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered. 1-22. Belfast: Department of Social Anthropology, Queen's University of Belfast.

  1979  Nuer politics. In Ladislav Holy, Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered. . Belfast: Department of Social Anthropology, Queen's University of Belfast.

Hutchinson, Sharon E.

  1980  "Relations between the sexes among the Nuer: 1930," Africa 50 : 371-388.

  1990  "Rising divorce among the Nuer, 1936-83," Man 25 : 393-411.

  1992  "The cattle of money and the cattle of girls among the Nuer, 1930-83," American Ethnologist 19 (2) : 294-316.

  1994  "On The Nuer conquest," Current Anthropology 35 (5) : 643-651.

1996 Nuer Dilemmas: Coping With Money, War, and the State. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press.

Hutnyk, John

  1990  "Comparative anthropology and Evans-Pritchard's Nuer photography," Critique of Anthropology 10 (1) : 81-102.

Jacobson, David

  1991  Reading ethnography. Albany: State University of New York Press.

James, Wendy

  1973  The anthropologist as reluctant imperialist. In Talal Asad, Anthropology and the colonial encounter. 41-69. London: Ithaca Press.

Johnson, Douglas H.

  1981  "The fighting Nuer: primary sources and the origins of a stereotype," Africa 51 : 508-527.

  1982  "Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer, and the Sudan Civil Service," African Affairs 81 : 231-246.

  1991  "Criminal secrecy: the case of the Zande "secret societies"," Past and Present 130 : 170-200.

Karp, Ivan and Maynard, Kent

  1983  "Reading The Nuer," Current Anthropology 24 (4) : 481-503.

Kenny, Michael G.

  1987  "Trickster and mystic: the anthropological persona of E. E. Evans-Pritchard," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 12 (1) : 9-15.

Kuklick, Henrika

  1984  Tribal exemplars: images of political authority in British anthropology, 1885-1945. In George W. Stocking, Jr., Functionalism historicized: essays on British social anthropology. 59-82. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Kuper, Adam

  1982  "Lineage theory: a critical retrospect," Annual Review of Anthropology 11 : 71-95.

Leach, Edmund R.

  1980  "Cairo essays: review of Mary Douglas, Edward Evans-Pritchard," London Review of Books : 24

Lienhardt, R. Godfrey

  1964  Belief and knowledge. In his Social anthropology. . London: Oxford University Press.

  1974  "E-P: a personal view," Man <N.S.> 9 : 299-305.

Marx, Emmanuel

  1977  "The tribe as a unit of subsistence: nomadic pastorialism in the Middle East," American Anthropologist 79 : 344-363.

McKinnon, Susan

  2000  "Domestic exceptions: Evans-Pritchard and the creation of Nuer patrilineality and equality," Cultural Anthropology 15 (1) : 35-83.

McLeod, Malcolm D.

  1972  "Oracles and accusations among the Azande." In Andre Singer and B. V. Street, Zande themes. 158-178. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield.

Pratt, Mary Louise

  1986  "Fieldwork in common places." In James Clifford and George E. Marcus, Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography. 27-50. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Richards, Audrey I.

  1941  "A problem of anthropological approach," Bantu Studies 15 : 45-52.

Rosaldo, Renato I.

  1986  From the door of his tent: the fieldworker and the inquisitor. In James Clifford and George E. Marcus, Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography. 77-97. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sacks, Karen Brodkin

  1979  "Causality and chance on the upper Nile," American Ethnologist 6 : 437-448.

Salzman, Philip C.

  1978  "Ideology and change in Middle Eastern tribal societies," Man <N.S.> 13 : 618-637.

Salzman, Philip C.

  1978  "Does complementary opposition exist?," American Anthropologist 80 (1) : 53-70.

Singer, Andre and Brian Street (ed.)

  1972  Zande themes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Sperber, Dan

  1985  Interpretive anthropology and theoretical anthropology. In anonymous, On anthropological knowledge. 9-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Taussig, Michael

  1998  Viscerality, faith, and skepticism: another theory of magic. In Nicholas B. Dirks, In near ruins: culture theory at the end of the century. 221-256. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.

Turner, Victor W.

  1964  "Witchcraft and sorcery: taxonomy versus dynamics," Africa 34 (4) : 314-325.

Verdon, Michael

  1980  "Descent: an operational view," Man <N.S.> 15 : 129-150.

  1982  "Where have all their lineages gone?  cattle and descent among the Nuer," American Anthropologist 84 : 566-579.

Winch, Peter

  1975  Understanding a primitive society. In Bryan R. Wilson, Rationality. 78-109. London: Basil Blackwell.