Azande

Examples

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• It is thus not certain that the Azande constitute a real exception.

  Academic text (1990)

• Among the Azande people of central Africa, the trickster is a spider as well: Ture is an animal so clever he can make a web out of himself.

  Academic text (1991)

• This utterly selfish person is everything against which the Azande warn their children most strongly.

  Academic text (1991)

• But they lack the concept of witchcraft known to the Azande, where the witch is thought to possess innate psychic power that operates quite independently of the witch's will.

  Academic text (1999)

• I, with three Azande carpenters, began to repair packing boxes, make new ones, and prepare all our collections for the three weeks' overland safari down to Stanleyville, where, at last, they could be put on a river steamer.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Azande, for example, remarked on the resemblance between their witchcraft and European books without replacing the poison oracle with magical writing (Evans Pritchard 1976).

  Academic text (1998)

• A photograph taken in 1913 of the mapingo oracle of Chief Akenge of the Azande is extraordinary for its intimate view of this secret oracle (Fig. 16).

  Academic text (1991)

• Gbudue was a famous Azande king of South Sudan.

• The classic study of witchcraft in Africa occurred among the Azande, who inhabit the eastern edge of the Central African Republic.

• Few have read Evans-Pritchard's famous work on the Azande where that distinction was established as the bedrock of analysis of African witchcraft.

Synonyms

Z

Zande

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A person from a Central African group or the language they speak

refers only to the people and not the language

Surface Forms

Etymology