The Anthropological Lens

A highly illustrated book exploring the work of Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, widely considered the most influential British anthropologist of the 20th century, through the lens of his fieldwork photography.

It offers new insight and a major reinterpreatation of Evans-Pritchard's theoretical contributions to the discipline.

1 Photographs are to think with: historicizing anthropology; 2 Survivals, surveys, and struggles: first fieldwork; 3 Visuality and textuality: encountering Zande ritual; 4 Double alienation: fieldwork and photography between two worlds; 5 Image, archive, and monograph: dangerous liaisons; 6 Akobo realism: conversations with the Anuak; 7 The participant-photographer: encountering Nuer ritual; 8 The poet, the missionary, and the sacred spears