Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973

LC control no.	n 79077275
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Personal name heading	Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan, 1902-1973 Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan, Sir, 1902-1973. Pritchard, E. E. Evans- (Edward Evan Evans-), 1902-1973
Associated country	England
Birth date	1902-09-21
Death date	1973-09-11
Place of birth	Sussex (England)
Place of death	Oxford (England)
Affiliation	University of Oxford London School of Economics and Political Science Jāmiʻat Fuʼād al-Awwal All Souls College (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupation	Anthropologists Authors College teachers
Found in	His Essays presented to C. G. Seligman, 1934. The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought , accessed January 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan; anthropologist; born 21 September 1902 in Sussex, England; studied modern history at the University of Oxford and anthropology at the London School of Economics; earned his doctorate (1927); was appointed at the Fuad I University (now the Egyptian University of Cairo) (1932); his seminal work, Theories of primitive religion disputed the existing theories of primitive religious practices; his trilogy of works on the Nuer (The Nuer, Nuer Religion, and Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer) and his coedited volume African Political Systems are seen as classics of British social anthropology; in 1940 he was commissioned in the Sudan Defense Force; became a professor of social anthropology and a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford (1946-1970); died 11 September 1973 in Oxford, England)