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model for the Nuer. But this is not to say that Evans-Pritchard did not take 
a considered ethical stand in anticipation of the way in which reasonable 
alternative conclusions may have been put to practical use by the Sudan 
Political Service. The line of reasoning adopted here proposes the recognition 
of a further admirable quality of this anthropologist of “profound paradoxes 
and powerful passions” (Gellner 1981: xxvi). 
This paper was first presented at the 1980 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropol 
ogical Association held in Washington, D.C. I am grateful to the members of the symposium 
“The Reinterpretation of Nuer Ethnography” for their comments at the time. A subse 
quent draft was read and criticized by Diana Antos Arens, John W. Burton, T. O. Beidel- 
man, Gretchen Gwynne, David Hicks, Ivan Karp, Adam Kuper, Rodney Needham, Aldan 
Southall, Lawrence Taylor, and Roy Willis. 
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