Talal Asad
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Talal Asad is a Saudi-born British cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of
Talal Asad in 2013
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard FBA FRAI was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxfo
Talal Asad
…Bachelor of Letters and PhD from the University of Oxford, which he completed in 1968. Asad’s mentor while at Oxford was notable social anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard, who Asad has since cited in many of his works. As an undergraduate in the anthropology department at Edinburgh University Talal Asad first met Dr…
Evans Pritchard
Eleusine, used in Amatangi magic, drying by a small tree. Photo by Evans-Pritchard
Bust of Evans-Pritchard