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Along an African Border – Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets: Contemporary Ethnography

Autor Sónia Silva
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2013
Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past.
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ISBN-13: 9780812222685
ISBN-10: 0812222687
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Contemporary Ethnography


Cuprins

Introduction Chapter 1. Birth Chapter 2. Initiation Chapter 3. Adulthood Conclusion: A Way of Living Glossary Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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"With great originality, [Silva] accesses the life stories of these human subjects through the material objects with which they (inter-)relate... Silva provides a stimulating model for any researcher hoping to partner with individuals in their efforts to confront the myriad ways they are objectified, whether by circumstances, by the state, or by scholarship."-Journal of Religion in Africa "In addition to a useful debate between the economics and business awareness approach, or the personification of ritual, this book contains very useful and detailed descriptions of basket divination rituals and Angolan basket weaving techniques that will be useful to the general reader and students of African studies."-Journal of American Academy of Religion "A thought-provoking study of the dynamics of divination in a refugee population seeking stability in a disrupted world through an ancient and effective 'way of knowing.' Using the frame of a divination basket's life history from birth to adulthood, Silva provides a rich contextual study of the various paths to understanding presented by the core cultural institution of divination: material culture and art, economic theory, gender relations, the nature of knowledge, ethnography, jurisprudence, and personhood."-Philip M. Peek, Drew University

"In addition to a useful debate between the economics and business awareness approach, or the personification of ritual, this book contains very useful and detailed descriptions of basket divination rituals and Angolan basket weaving techniques that will be useful to the general reader and students of African studies."-Journal of American Academy of Religion "With great originality, [Silva] accesses the life stories of these human subjects through the material objects with which they (inter-)relate... Silva provides a stimulating model for any researcher hoping to partner with individuals in their efforts to confront the myriad ways they are objectified, whether by circumstances, by the state, or by scholarship."-Journal of Religion in Africa "A thought-provoking study of the dynamics of divination in a refugee population seeking stability in a disrupted world through an ancient and effective 'way of knowing.' Using the frame of a divination basket's life history from birth to adulthood, Silva provides a rich contextual study of the various paths to understanding presented by the core cultural institution of divination: material culture and art, economic theory, gender relations, the nature of knowledge, ethnography, jurisprudence, and personhood."-Philip M. Peek, Drew University

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