One of his students wrote the book Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, and Modernity as well as Genealogies in Religion.
One of his students wrote the book Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, and Modernity as well as Genealogies in Religion. The mentor of CUNY anthropologist Talal Asad, he gave a rudimentary definition of social anthropology in "The Scope of the Subject," and described the many uses of a zawiya in his The Sanusi of Cyrenaica. Coeditor of African Political Systems, this man conducted research on the Bongo and developed on ethnographer Charles Seligman's theories of religion. He described the "Trickster" of the tribe he studied most, which along with the Nuer occupy Southern Sudan. For 10 points, name this British anthropologist and author of Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande.
One of his students wrote the book Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, and Modernity as well as Genealogies in Religion.
Sir Edward Evan {Evans-Pritchard}