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This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." ―Journal of Ritual Studies
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." ―Choice
This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.
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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 sections that explore, in turn, the identity of the diviner; comparative and historical issues; the central role of divination in the articulation of cultural ideas, norms, and values within society; the making of knowledge through the divinatory process; and the integration of normal and nonnormal ways of knowing within the divination process. Although all of the essays provide rich ethnographic data, the essays in the fourth and fifth section are the most interesting from a theoretical perspective. They provide the clearest critique of previous positivist approaches to divination, which focus on the outcomes of the divinatory process while failing to appreciate the meanings and truths that inhere to, and are articulated by, the process itself. Of particular interest are the facinating articles by Rosalind Shaw and Philip Peek. Highly recommended for advanced undergraduates.December 1991 (R. M. Packard Tufts University)
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- PublisherIndiana Univ Pr
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0253343097
- ISBN 13 9780253343093
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages230
- EditorPeek Philip M.
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African divination systems : ways of knowing / edited by Philip M. Peek
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1st 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 divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek. Subject; Divination Africa, Sub-Saharan. Divination Afrique subsaharienne. JUVENILE NONFICTION General. Divination. Manners and customs. Waarzeggerij. Openbaring.Kennis. Divination Africa, Sub-Saharan. Divination Africa. Divinations Africa, Sub-Saharan. WahrsagenOpenbaringen. Adivinhações. Cultura África. Divination Afrique noire. Divination Afrique du Sud. Divination Burkina Faso. Divination Congo (République démocratique)Divination Kenya. Divination Madagascar. Divination Sierra Leone. Divination Togo. Wahrsagen. Africa, Sub-Saharan Social life and customs. Africa, Sub-Saharan Social life and customs. Afrique subsaharienne Murs et coutumes. Sub-Saharan Africa. Afrika. Africa, Sub-Saharan Social life and customs. Africa Social life and customs Africa, Sur del Sahara Vida social y costumbres. Subsaharisches Afrika. Afrique noire Moeurs et coutumes. Schwarzafrika. Divination. Africa. Religie. Religion. Public Health. Volksgezondheid. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 394669
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1st 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 divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek. Subject; Divination Africa, Sub-Saharan. Divination Afrique subsaharienne. JUVENILE NONFICTION General. Divination. Manners and customs. Waarzeggerij. Openbaring.Kennis. Divination Africa, Sub-Saharan. Divination Africa. Divinations Africa, Sub-Saharan. WahrsagenOpenbaringen. Adivinhações. Cultura África. Divination Afrique noire. Divination Afrique du Sud. Divination Burkina Faso. Divination Congo (République démocratique)Divination Kenya. Divination Madagascar. Divination Sierra Leone. Divination Togo. Wahrsagen. Africa, Sub-Saharan Social life and customs. Africa, Sub-Saharan Social life and customs. Afrique subsaharienne Murs et coutumes. Sub-Saharan Africa. Afrika. Africa, Sub-Saharan Social life and customs. Africa Social life and customs Africa, Sur del Sahara Vida social y costumbres. Subsaharisches Afrika. Afrique noire Moeurs et coutumes. Schwarzafrika. Divination. Africa. Religie. Religion. Public Health. Volksgezondheid. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 394669
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