Photo: profile booksThe Anthropological Lens By Christopher MortonOxford, 226 pages, $40All this—the fieldwork, the books, the style—has been subjected to abundant commentary. Mr. Morton might perhaps have paid more attention to the images that Evans-Pritchard selected to illustrate his monographs. Among the Azande, Evans-Pritchard focused on witchcraft. “Witches, as Azande conceive them, cannot exist.” Their oracles “tell them nothing.” Why then did sensible Azande sometimes believe in all that stuff? Mr. Morton offers a fresh perspective on an extraordinary career.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 20, 2020 22:07 UTC