African divination systems : ways of knowing /
The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study. The introduction critically reviews the preoccupations of earlier students of African divination. The essays that follow are divided into five sec...
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| Series: | African systems of thought.
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Table of 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
- Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek.
