Strange Beliefs: Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard

Part of a television series 'Strangers Abroad', shown on television in the 1990s. Details of the programme, including producer, director and other credits are at the end of the film.
The film centres on the work of E.E.Evans-Pritchard, particularly his work on Azande Witchcraft. For interviews with other anthropologists and further materials, please see www.alanmacfarlane.com

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[necessarily]

Dear Prof. Macfarlane, how wonderful it is that you have put this whole series of videos on Anthropology, Social, Political and Global. Your lectures on the origins of the modern world has been most stimulating. In a way, it is the most fundamental part of any education, how exactly our world came to be. After all the formal work in mathematics, systems and AI, it is uncanny how your lectures had a "completing" effect on me. Thank you for your efforts, how could one ever compensate you for this!

[ayabaya]

@necessarily

Thanks so much - it is comments like this which make it all worthwhile... Alan

[pepperz150]

I want to express my thanks to prof.Macfarlane for all this video he's posting on youtube.

[Glasbird1]

Thank you so much for posting these videos on here - was struggling so much with an anthropology essay until I found these films. It all seems so much easier now. Thank you!!! :D

[Gorevet]

Thanks for the video - this helped me discover his work in “Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande” which was quite interesting.

[7korn71]

VERY GOOD !!! I DONT SPEAK ENGLISH >>>I NEED SUBSCRIBES PLEASE ...OBRIGADO PELA ATENÇÃO !!! I LIVE IN BRASIL !RIO DE JANEIRO !

[tulocco]

Thank you for uploading this, it has been very useful.Tomorrow I have an exam on this!!

[Taisa0Naum]

@pepperz150 all *these* videos..

[lordcadburyhopkins]

Great vid, shows the beginnings of proper studies of other cultures through the lens of European science and reason.

[kira655321]

Pritchard is like margaret mead just more qualied and fantastic

[Indygoguy]

@palotin07 "understand another culture on its own terms" another way of exalting moral and cultural relativism. The hallmark of the kind of cowardice and weakness that infused the upper classes of England and led to it's downfall. The decent into utter stupidity that makes a people forget what got them where they are. To the worthless offspring of the spoiled classes a mud hut is as big an accomplishment as a jet engine or computer, but only to those so spoiled they are dead inside.