African Divination Systems – Ways of Knowing (Paper)
Autor Philip M. Peeken Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mai 1991
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253206534
ISBN-10: 0253206537
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 10 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253206537
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 10 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Notă biografică
edited by Philip M. Peek
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Study of Divination, Present and Past
Philip M. Peek
Part One. Becoming a Diviner
The Initiation of a Zulu Diviner
Henry Callaway
Part Two. 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 Verin and Narivelo Rajaonarimanana
Part Three. 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
Rene Devisch
Part Four. 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
Part Five. Toward a New Approach to Divination
African Divination Systems: Non-Normal Modes of Cognition
Philip M. Peek
Afterword
James W. Fernandez
Contributors
Index
Introduction
The Study of Divination, Present and Past
Philip M. Peek
Part One. Becoming a Diviner
The Initiation of a Zulu Diviner
Henry Callaway
Part Two. 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 Verin and Narivelo Rajaonarimanana
Part Three. 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
Rene Devisch
Part Four. 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
Part Five. Toward a New Approach to Divination
African Divination Systems: Non-Normal Modes of Cognition
Philip M. Peek
Afterword
James W. Fernandez
Contributors
Index