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Divination's grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said / Richard Werbner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werbner, Richard P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divination--Africa, Southern.
- Divination.
- Fortune-telling--Africa, Southern.
- Fortune-telling.
- Tswapong (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Tswapong (African people).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253018953
- 0253018951
- OCLC:
- 924574324
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