Touch of Genius

Editor: André Singer is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Professorial Research Associate at London School of Oriental and African Studies.Contributors: Juan Ossio Acuña, Grace Akello,Tim Allen, Ahmed Al-Shahi, Raymond Apthorpe, Tom Beidelman, Melha Ruot Biel, Bruno Braak, Douglas Davies, Francis Mading Deng, Susan Drucker-Brown, Deirdre Evans-Pritchard, John Evans-Pritchard, David Hicks, Wendy James, Ravindra K. Jain, Timothy Jenkins, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael Kenny, John Justin Kenyi, David Kronenfeld, Eisei Kurimoto, Pierre Lee, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Kim Jal Lieh, Andrew Lyons, Harriet Lyons, Piero Matthey, Leben Nelson Moro, Christopher Morton, Elizabeth Ngutuku, Auma Okwany, Naomi Pendle, Gary Worth Seaman’s, Bruce Ross-Smith, David Shankland,Richard Werbner, Roy Willis, John Gai Yoh.

• Foreword: Evans-Pritchard and the paradoxes of anthropology - Francis Mading DengAcknowledgementsI: IntroductionIntroduction - André SingerAutobiographical fragments - Edward Evans-PritchardII: Personality and memories'My Soul there is a Country': E-P in the mirror of poetry - Bruce Ross-SmithTrickster and mystic: The anthropological persona of E.E Evans-Pritchard - Michael KennyThe house that E-P built: The Oxford Institute of Social Anthropology in the mid-1950s - Raymond Apthorpe'A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius': E-P's vision and the Institute 1946-70 - Wendy JamesE.E. Evans-Pritchard: A note in memoriam - Roy WillisA decade of memories: 1961-71 - David HicksThe man, the society, the conditions: Influences on E. E. Evans-Pritchard's early fieldwork - John Evans-PritchardIII: Insights through correspondenceA glimpse of Evans-Pritchard through his correspondence with Lowie and Kroeber - Piero MattheyEvans-Pritchard and Marett: Or how E-P found a job - David ShanklandA letter to E.E. Evans-Pritchard - Lucien Lévy-BruhlCorrespondence between Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes - Susan Drucker-BrownPerilous mentoring, fraught friendship: Between Evans-Pritchard and Gluckman - Richard WerbnerProfessor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's correspondence: Extracts from his surviving letters - Ahmed Al-ShahiIV: In AfricaEvans-Pritchard as a pioneer of African history - Douglas H. JohnsonThe E-P legend: Perspectives from the Sudan - Wendy JamesLatakia to Benghazi: E-P and the war years - Deirdre Evans-PritchardTypes of relationships between men and animals in Nuer Religion - Timothy JenkinsThinking outside the box: An exploration of E-P's Azande fieldwork through his supply case - Pierre LeeAttempted portrait: From cover to context in Evans-Pritchard's Luo photography - Christopher MortonE.E. Evans-Pritchard: A Japanese Perspective - Eisei KurimotoV: Contemporary relevance in AfricaIntroduction to Part V: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: Perspectives on his contemporary relevance in Africa - Tim AllenHIV/AIDS and Evans-Pritchard in Azandeland - Tim AllenZande chieftaincy and kingship: Historical memories, future visions and reinstatement of a Zande kingdom - Bruno Braak and John Justin Kenyi'Anthropology became the magic': Perspectives on Evans-Pritchard from Juba - John Gai Yoh, Melha Ruot Biel and Kim Jal Lieh, compiled by Naomi PendleEvans-Pritchard's works on the Nuer and their relevance to contemporary South Sudan - Leben Nelson MoroTeaching and reading Evans-Pritchard as a Ugandan anthropologist - Grace AkelloUn-scripting African cultures: Historical tensions and contemporary possibilities for anthropology in East Africa - Elizabeth Ngutuku and Auma OkwanyVI: Continuing impactAn interesting misunderstanding? - Harriet D. Lyons and Andrew P. LyonsTheories of primitive religion - Douglas DaviesE-P's attraction for cognitive anthropology - David B. KronenfeldSegmentary lineage systems re(re)considered: The example of the Alevis of Anatolia - David ShanklandSegmentary lineage among the Tiv: Bohannan's work as inspired by Evans-Pritchard - Gary SeamanAnthropology is friends - Juan OssioComparison as cultural translation: South Asian diasporic coextension and bicentric networks - Ravindra K. JainVII: AppendixA biography and bibliography of E.E. Evans-Pritchard - Tom Beidelman, with additions by André SingerContributorsIndex

No other anthropologist has had Evans-Pritchard’s unique combination of theoretical sophistication and ethnographic skill in a number of very different contexts, and his personal charisma. This volume will be an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the mercurial man behind the classic monographs.David N. Gellner,Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford. A deep account of his life and work, lovingly assembled, and containing many nuggets of memory and analysis of a rare kind. Capturing something of a great man in a great period, it is a fascinating read and a fitting tribute to someone who shaped a generation of anthropologists.Alan Macfarlane, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, King’s College, Cambridge. What emerges in this remarkable volume is a complex character whose attributes cannot be easily and holistically represented, but he vividly comes through in biographical accounts, interpersonal correspondence, recollections of family members, friends, students and colleagues, and, of course, his own scholarship. Ambassador Francis Deng, United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights, and Special Representative for the Prevention of Genocide until 2012. A valuable contribution to the discipline’s history through his time; both locally in Oxford, and globally. Hilary Callan, Director Emerita, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.