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E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard

E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a British anthropologist renowned for his in-depth studies of indigenous African societies. His research methods had a profound impact on the field of anthropology. more

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“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”

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Book:The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)
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“The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”

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Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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