Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard
In the 1980s, Bruce Dakowski and Andre Singer collaborated on a series of video documentary portraits intended to introduce six founders of “social anthropology.” The project was sponsored and supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute. The six selected “pioneers” were Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929), William Rivers (1864-1922), Franz Boas (1858-1942), Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973), and Margaret Mead (1901-1978).
On DocumentaryStorm we currently have 4 documentaries in the series. However, we are still looking for the last two.
This first episode investigates Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973). He was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology. He was also Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1946 to 1970.
