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E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973) was a British social anthropologist and professor at Oxford. His studies of the peoples of southern Sudan, especially Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937) and The Nuer (1940), became classics of anthropology. He also wrote on the Sanusi of Cyrenaica and on theories of religion.
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