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Strange Beliefs (Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard)
- 1985 ----- color ----- 52 min ----- vhs
- University professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard taught that Western ideas have many features in common with other cultures and are just as weird and wonderful. He was the first trained anthropologist to do work in Africa, where he lived among the Azande and studied their belief in witchcraft; later, he worked with the Nuer tribe in the Sudan. His work on witchcraft found philosophers asking what could be considered rational thinking in any society; his study of tribal organization was intriguing to political theorists; and his attention to the sophisticated religious sentiments of so-called primitive peoples has had a strong influence on theologians.
- Topics: (Africa, Anthropology: Cultural, Biography)
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