Anthropos: Anthropos, 78.1983,1-4

Anthropos, 78.1983,1-4

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Titel:: Anthropos, 78.1983,1-4

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1983

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Titel:: Bd. 78, 1983, Heft 1-2

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Titel:: Evans-Pritchard and the Prophets: Comments on an Ethnographic Enigma

Sonstige Person:: Arens, W.

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W. Arens Evans-Pritchard and the Prophets: Comments on an Ethnographic Enigma Abstract. — An overview of the ethnographic corpus on the Nuer of the Southern Sudan by E.E. Evans-Pritchard elucidates a peculiar shortcoming with regard to his inter pretation of the political role and function of the prophets. Subsequent reanalyses and comparative material offered by other anthropologists are more convincing on the need to recognize the significant political role played by these religious leaders. This essay addresses what has implicitly been assumed to be an intellectual failing on Evans-Pritchard’s part, and suggests in contrast that he either consciously or unconsciously sought to deemphasize the political nature of this office for extraneous reasons when he formulated his now celebrated model of Nuer social structure. The argument is supported by reference to (1) the historical context within which the original fieldwork took place; (2) Evans- Pritchard’s remarks on the nature of colonial rule in Africa; and (3) his published work on other African societies which bear on this question. It is concluded that although his paradigm was and continues to be valid for the interpretation of acephalous societies, Evans-Pritchard nonetheless failed to give due credit to the political character of Nuer prophets which he was cognizant of. [Nuer, Prophets, Colonialism, Evans-Pritchard] Though no enemy of the Sudan administra tion ... he [Evans-Pritchard ] was really grati fied that the pyramid of the prophet Deng Kur . . . could still be seen across the plain from Akobo to Malakal, outlasting the administration which had tried to destroy it (Lienhardt 1974: 303) However defined, the discipline of social anthropology rests upon ethnography. It is perplexing, therefore, that anthropologists have had little to say on the subject of what makes for good ethnography (see Karp and W. Arens is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Ph. D. from the University of Virginia in 1970 with a dissertation based upon fieldwork (1968-1969) in Mto wa Mbu, a poly-ethnic rural community in Northern Tanzania. The results of this research formed the bases of a number of articles, essays, and the monograph, On the Frontier of Change (University of Michigan Press, 1979). He is also the editor of A Century of Change in Eastern Africa (Mouton, 1976) Anthropos 78.1983 1

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