ABSTRACT
This chapter describes about Edward Evans-Pritchard was a British anthropologist. Anthropology is the study of human social and cultural life. Edward Evans-Pritchard, the author of Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, was born to an Anglican family in the British county of Sussex in 1902. In Evans-Pritchard's time, the first half of the twentieth century, the Azande were a small-scale agricultural and hunter-gatherer people in the Southern Sudan of northeastern Africa. Witchcraft argues that their belief system is logical and coherent. Witchcraft also encourages students to move out of the library and into the real world. Evans-Pritchard spent 20 months living with the Azande to write Witchcraft. The natural and social sciences develop general laws about the behaviors and properties of material or persons. Evans-Pritchard was interested in anthropological laws, but he was more interested in people. Witchcraft also provides a helpful route into thinking about the ethics of researching human subjects.
