Books by Godfrey Lienhardt
Divinity and Experience
by Godfrey Lienhardt
A delicately written book about the Dinka of Southern Sudan, a tribe unusual in its preoccupation with creating good fortune rather than discovering the sources of misfortune.
Interviews where books by Godfrey Lienhardt were recommended
The best books on African Religion and Witchcraft, recommended by Jean Fontaine
The emeritus professor of social anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Speak of the Devil says the Dinka and the Nuer are famous in anthropology for not being preoccupied with misfortune