< Back

Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande.
Publisher: The Clarendon Press, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1937
Stock Code: 15487
Third edition after the first of 1937. Octavo, pp., xxv, [1], 558, [2], plus photolithographic frontispiece, 33 lithographic plates, 2 maps, and nine figures within text, as called for. Publisher’s navy blue cloth; titled in gilt to spine. In the publisher’s original unclipped grey dust-jacket. Closed tear to upper panel of jacket; further small tears to upper joint and to head of spine; spine panel a touch toned and mottled. Minor area of rubbing to foot of upper board; binding otherwise strong and square. A few spots to edges else, internally clean. A very good copy in like jacket. An exhaustive study in social anthropology of magic, witchcraft, and clairvoyance among the Azande people of North-Central Africa. £65.00