…immediately made me think of the circumstance in which the Newer became famous for anthropologists, which was the work of Evans Pritchard. I'd always been fascinated by, if you read the very beginning of Evans Pritchard's work on the Newer, he has…

…all these cows and and finally they took the survivors and relocated them to this place called Muad'dit. It was exactly where Evans Pritchard showed up two years later, and no one would talk to him. But when I was reading this, there was another thing…

…interesting. It actually begins, and I'd like to thank the Leverhulme Foundation for funding this research. It turns out that Evans Pritchard had basically been got by the British colonial authorities. He was trying to study witchcraft and magic among the…

…this money is coming from the very heart of the greatest colonial atrocity in Africa, which is then used to fund Evans Pritchard to go out and spy on the newer by the colonial authorities, but which produces the greatest ethnography you really have…

…mean people are selling women? As one might imagine, anthropologists were sort of called in as expert witnesses, testified, and Evans Pritchard in particular entered the argument to make a strong case that even in societies where people actually say things…