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Eleusine plant, associated with Amatangi magic.
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Eleusine plant, associated with Amatangi magic.
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Eleusine plant, associated with Amatangi magic. 1. Plant in centre of homestead. 2. A heap of eleusine drying in centre of homestead. On top of the eleusine are medicines to increase it. Reproduction of a photograph of the eleusine plant associated with amatangi medicine. It shows the plant growing. The photograph is one of two published as plate XXX in Evans-Pritchard, E. E: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1937. The Azande are an ethnic group of North Central Africa. Photographs of the book plate were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10958 and PHO 10959).

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Keywords: Magic; agricultural, hunting; indigenous medicine; non-european medicine; E. Evans-Pritchard

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