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Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Werbner, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wahrsagen
Tswapong
Fortune-telling.
Divination.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Divination > Afrique australe.
Predictions (Occultisme) > Afrique australe.
Divination > Africa, Southern.
Fortune-telling > Africa, Southern.
Tswapong (African people) > Social life and customs.
Southern Africa.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (346 pages).
ISBN:9780253018953

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