| Description |
viii, 230 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm |
| Series |
African systems of thought |
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African systems of thought.
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| Contents |
(cont.) Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek |
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The study of divination, present and past / Philip M. Peek -- Becoming a diviner. The initiation of a Zulu diviner / Henry Callaway -- The search for knowledge. Nilotic cosmology and the divination of Atuot philosophy / John W. Burton -- Divination in Madagascar : the Antemoro case and the diffusion of divination / Pierre Vérin and Narivelo Rajaonarimanana -- Cultural systems within divination systems. Diviners as alienists and annunciators among the Batammaliba of Togo / Rudolph Blier -- Divination among the Lobi of Burkina Faso / Piet Meyer -- Divination and the hunt in Pagibeti ideology / Alden Almquist -- Mediumistic divination among the Northern Yaka of Zaire : etiology and ways of knowing / René Devisch -- Divination, epistemology, and truth. Splitting truths from darkness : epistemological aspects of Temne divination / Rosalind Shaw -- Knowledge and power in Nyole divination / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Simultaneity and sequencing in the oracular speech of Kenyan diviners / David Parkin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Divination -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa South of the Sahara -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009115719
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| Author |
Peek, Philip M.
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| LC no. |
90039421 |
| ISBN |
0253343097 |
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