It's as if someone asked him to cook the best meal you could imagine, and he cooked it with no spices, no moisture, no flavor, and on top of that, burned the shit out of it.Although this book is packed with some very interesting information, it is dry, and casual readers of ethnographies may have a hard time reading it. Kind of dated "western" view of native tribes.One of the finest novels in the English language, but unputdownable. Welcome back. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

In short, very interesting, but also, very dry.In poche parole, i nuer non hanno voglia di coltivare, non hanno voglia di uccidere bestiame, selvaggina o pesci, non mangiano frutti selvatici, non commerciano e poi si lamentano se patiscono la fame... l'importante è aver, finalmente, finito i compiti.Evans-Pritchard was true to his time when it comes to kinship and social theory. Published E-P's argument is that the Nuer, even as examples of Hobbes' imagined state of nature, have no government. I also have to say that although he is writing from a British structural functionalism perspective, he is still very liberal in his description of the Nuer. The Hobbesian argument is that the state of nature compels humans to create government. They're anything but. ), PH.D. (LONDON) RESEARCH LECTURER IN AFRICAN SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT THE EGYPTIAN UNIVERSITY, CAIRO.

The first two chapters - 'Cattle' and 'Oecology' - provided an environmental setting for the Nuer, cattle pastoralists who carried on limited horticulture. This is a great book to read to study how these theories are applied, and it also shows how lacking they can be.Bone chilling. Probabilmente è anche la ragione per cui questo testo mi ha appassionata tanto. This is the driest, most boring steaming pile of cow feces that I've ever read. E-P's argument is that the Nuer, even as examples of Hobbes' imagined state of nature, have no government. (OXON. M.A. The Hobbesian argument is that the state of nature compels humans to create government. In Stock. They're anything but. Faccio parte di quella minoranza di lettori che è partita con Evans-Pritchard alla scoperta di questa "anarchia ordinata" senza essere una studiosa di antropologia. my warmest thanks are further rendered to the many Nuer who made me their guest and befriended me. Probably the driest ethnography ever written, with about 80 pages about cattle alone, but hey, it's a classic so you're supposed to say it's good anyway, right?Methodology: lots of details, glossing over of concepts, then generalization to fit his structuralist framework Methodology: lots of details, glossing over of concepts, then generalization to fit his structuralist framework I promise that I am not going to chunk up my reading list with school books, but this was pretty interesting both as a time capsule and a way of understanding the Sudan. And way too much about cattle. Ships from and sold by The Great British Bookshop (USA). There are also a couple of funny, why-won't-these-savages-respect-me-as-an-important-anthropogist moments. That was about fifteen years ago. Infatti, nonostante anche i meno esperti possano notare che si tratta di un lavoro datato (per metodologia, per approccio..), ha saputo stupirmi senza annoiarmi. I’ve woken up in the arms of women in the Horn of Africa. That was about fifteen years ago. "The Nuer" is a superb ethnographic work done by Evans-Pritchard. It is for this reason that the author spends so much time looking at the details of inter-tribal relations and the like. Well, let’s look at it this way, I was only eighteen on nineteen back then. OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. Did I learn more about the subject of Anthropology in the past few days, while reading EP’s Nuer, than I ever did duAnthropological publications are not my main source of reading pleasure, and I say that, as someone who holds a BA degree, with Anthropology as one of my majors. Her ...The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic PeopleIn reading this book, it is extremely important to recognize that it a criticism of Thomas Hobbes' LEVIATHIAN. Il tipo di libro di stampo scientifico (antropologico, nello specifico) che però riesce ad avere un taglio documentaristico e al contempo intrigante, vista la grande distanza tra la cultura occidentale e quella dei Nuer.I don't usually go out of my way to review school books but my god. But when you realize the forces behind his work, it's really difficult to not read the book as a military report: here and there you'll find strategic information about Nuer's manners and institutions, information used, of couse, to better control the Nuer people. By E. E. Evans-Pritchard : The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People the archaeological site of tiwanaku bolivia is commonly held to be the spiritual capital of the aymara people but negotiating who qualifies as aymara and in assembling the iron age levant the archaeology of communities


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