ANTHROPOLOGIST

E. E. Evans-Pritchard

1902 - 1973

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Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard FBA FRAI (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973) was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1946 to 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. E. E. Evans-Pritchard is the 18th most popular anthropologist (down from 16th in 2019), the 1,352nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,091st in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Anthropologist.

Evans-Pritchard is most famous for his work in social anthropology. He studied and wrote about the Nuer people of Sudan, the Zande people of Sudan, and the Azande people of Congo. He also studied the Ewe people of Ghana.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 18 out of 93. Before him are Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Eugène Dubois, Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. After him are Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Wilhelm Schmidt, Marvin Harris, and Raymond Dart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 73. Before him are Anatole Litvak, Marcel Aymé, Richard Rodgers, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Christian de Castries, and Pascual Jordan. After him are Takeichi Nishi, Rafael Alberti, Maurice Duruflé, Alfredo Binda, Markian Popov, and Eugen Jochum. Among people deceased in 1973, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 68. Before him are Milunka Savić, Karl Löwith, José Villalonga, Robert Siodmak, Veronica Lake, and Mary Wigman. After him are Mikhail Kalatozov, Paul van Zeeland, Károly Kerényi, Asger Jorn, Jacques Lipchitz, and Edward Steichen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 1,352 out of 8,785. Before him are Margaret Burbidge (1919), Mungo Park (1771), Winifred Wagner (1897), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Dana Rosemary Scallon (1951), and David Warner (1941). After him are Thomas Browne (1605), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Mark Hollis (1955), Paul Grice (1913), Ciarán Hinds (1953), and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 6. Before him are Jane Goodall (1934), James George Frazer (1854), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881). After him are Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Jack Goody (1919), and Hugh Falconer (1808).

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