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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. E. Evans-Pritchard has received more than 413,491 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. E. E. Evans-Pritchard is the 16th most popular anthropologist (down from 15th in 2019), the 1,090th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 956th 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 16 out of 93. Before him are Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and Eugène Dubois. After him are Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, Victor Turner, and Cheikh Anta Diop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 65. Before him are Carlo Levi, David O. Selznick, Sylvanus Olympio, Marcel Aymé, George Gaylord Simpson, and Rafael Alberti. After him are Kirill Moskalenko, Christian de Castries, Takeichi Nishi, Bruno Streckenbach, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, and Demchugdongrub. Among people deceased in 1973, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 64. Before him are Adolf Strauss, Karl Löwith, Milunka Savić, Robert Siodmak, Károly Kerényi, and Edward Steichen. After him are Sessue Hayakawa, Robert Smithson, Soong Ai-ling, Katina Paxinou, Alan Watts, and José Villalonga.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 1,090 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770), Honor Blackman (1925), Llywelyn the Great (1173), Ryan Giggs (1973), John Tenniel (1820), and Don Airey (1948). After him are William Henry (1774), Helen McCrory (1968), Seamus Heaney (1939), Joseph Swan (1828), Matilda of Scotland (1080), and Ian Rush (1961).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, E. E. Evans-Pritchard ranks 6. Before him are James George Frazer (1854), Jane Goodall (1934), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881). After him are Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Marilyn Strathern (1941).

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