Nandi man
In 1936, Evans-Pritchard toured Western Kenya and took over 300 photographs of people dressed in European clothing. He described those in westernised clothes as 鈥渄ignified men鈥, who were 鈥渨elldressed鈥 and therefore seen as 鈥渆ducated鈥 and ultimately, 鈥渃ivilised鈥. He referred to those in traditional dress as 鈥減rimitive鈥: 鈥渦ncivilised鈥 and 鈥減ossessed by spirits.鈥 Cynthia MaiWa Sitei responds to the photographic archive of British Social Anthropologist Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard at Pitt Rivers Museum Database. From here, she embarked on a fieldwork expedition using reverse psychology, playing with time to explore the after-effects of colonialism.
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