ISBN10: 0253343097, ISBN13: 9780253343093, [publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press] Hardcover First Edition Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to thespine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description(viii, 230 pages) : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. 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 Atuophilosophy / 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 divinatio ...
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, Date: 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to thespine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description(viii, 230 pages) : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. 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 Atuophilosophy / 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 ...