The Nuer people of people of East Africa were also studied by Evans-Pritchard. He explained in detail how the Nuer thought about laws, politics, and their society. The Nuer did not build courthouses or other political buildings, instead most rules and political beliefs were remembered. The will and the expectation that you would follow these rules only existed a certain distance away from the village that made them. Like with the Azande, Evans-Pritchard went to their lands himself and he would not say something about them without first seeing it or hearing it from a Nuer.