ABSTRACT
Professor Evans-Pritchard has recently declared that he would perhaps regard himself ‘first as an ethnographer and secondly as a social anthropologist’ (1965: 34), and certainly it is by his ethnographical accomplishments, in the first place, that he has secured an enduring pre-eminence among practitioners of social anthropology. It is appropriate, therefore, that the present paper written in his honour should be offered as a contribution to ethnographical knowledge.
