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Stories about famous figures in social anthropology abound among new graduate students. At the Institute of Social Anthropology (Oxford) in the early 1970s we were no different, but I could verify the anecdotes about E.E. Evans-Pritchard, who (though recently retired in 1970), was available in his rooms at the Institute, or at a nearby pub.
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Williams, D. (1999). Fieldwork. In: Buckland, T.J. (eds) Dance in the Field. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375291_3
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