"The Nuer" by Evans-Pritchard and "Blood Is Their Argument" by Meggitt

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"This study will analyze the use of the theory of functionalism in two ethnographies, The Nuer, by E.E. Evans-Pritchard, and Blood Is Their Argument, by Mervyn Meggitt. The book by Evans-Pritchard represents an early version of functionalist theory (1940) and the work by Meggitt represents a later version (1977). The study will compare the two works in terms of the authors' use of the theory of functionalism, explicit and implicit, and how they applied the theory to the people and societies they were studying.

Functionalism began as a critique of earlier history-based theories. It argued that it was possible to understand a culture without focusing on the history of the culture as a central concern. Functionalism focuses on the "functions" that the interrelated parts of the culture perform. To understand why a ... "

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