Divination's Grasp : African Encounters with the Almost Said /

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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sociolinguistics and poetics
  • Deep dialogue with Evans-Pritchard
  • In praise of the moral imagination
  • Acrobatic stylistics, agonistic vision
  • From tablet archive to wisdom seances
  • Poetics and archives
  • Family seances : rhetoric, deliberations, and decisions
  • Cosmic and personal understandings : diviners, headmen, strangers
  • From hooved archive to charismatic seances
  • A charismatic diviner's archive : hooved divination
  • The cross-over: originality, hybridity, and metamorphosis
  • The charismatic seance : arguments, intimacy, and intimations
  • Conclusion: in comparison.

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