The Diviners of the Nuer

Record summary

This lead refers to Evans-Pritchard’s posthumously published study of Nuer divination, ritual specialists, spirits, and healing, based on field materials from the Sudan. It may matter for comparison because it documents how divination is organized socially and how ritual knowledge is transmitted, rather than treating occult claims as experimentally established phenomena. The publication date falls within the requested period, although much of the underlying fieldwork predates 1970. Researchers should distinguish the original ethnographic observations from editorial framing and later critiques of classic functionalist anthropology.