Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said
Language: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2015
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- Title
- Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said
- Author
- Werbner, Richard
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0253018897
- ISBN 13
- 9780253018892
Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting.
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About the Author
Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana (IUP).
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