Method & meaning : a consideration of interpretation in E.E. Evans-Pritchards Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. 1969.

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Method & meaning : a consideration of interpretation in E.E. Evans-Pritchards Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. 1969.

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Discusses two approaches in contemporary anthropological analyses of thought and belief, 1) content, 2) performance; question of kinds of in different communities (briefly notes sign language of the Ngatajara of Warburton); compares EvansPritchard with Levy-Bruhl; distinction between mystical and commonsense thought in relation to witchcraft; witchcraft a solution for evil; primitive mentality.

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Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973

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Levy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939.

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Barden, Garrett

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