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African divination systems : ways of knowing / edited by Philip M. Peek.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African systems of thoughtPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991.Description: viii, 230 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0253206537
  • 9780253206534
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF1773.2.A4 A37 1991
Contents:
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.
(cont.) Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek.
Item type: Book
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction BF1773.2.A4 A37 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 064647
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

(cont.) Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek.

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