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Critique of Evans-Pritchard

In his essay, Evans Pritchard deals with the concept of witchcraft in regards to the Azande people. Pritchard also talks about the concept of the natural and the supernatural. He poses the question, “do primitive peoples distinguish between the natural and the supernatural in the abstract” (p.30)? His answer to that question is that even in our own society (i.e. western society), some people cannot account for mysterious happenings and therefore attribute these to the ‘supernatural’. However, as Pritchard states, the Azande have no such distinction between the natural and the supernatural; they have, as he says, no such “notions of reality” (p.30).

Granted that the western world seems to have the same sorts of ideas as to the natural and the supernatural, who can truly determine what is real and what is unreal. The Azande, to

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Jehovah Allah, Pritchard Azande, Evans Pritchard, Angels Azande, natural supernatural, mysterious happenings, ,

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Approximate Word count = 572
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)