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Autore: | Werbner Richard P. |
Titolo: | Divination's grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said / / Richard Werbner |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2015] |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina: | 133.30968 |
Soggetto topico: | Divination - Africa, Southern |
Fortune-telling - Africa, Southern | |
Tswapong (African people) - Social life and customs | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Sociolinguistics and poetics -- Deep dialogue with Evans-Pritchard -- In praise of the moral imagination -- Acrobatic stylistics, agonistic vision -- From tablet archive to wisdom seances -- Poetics and archives -- Family seances : rhetoric, deliberations, and decisions -- Cosmic and personal understandings : diviners, headmen, strangers -- From hooved archive to charismatic seances -- A charismatic diviner's archive : hooved divination -- The cross-over: originality, hybridity, and metamorphosis -- The charismatic seance : arguments, intimacy, and intimations -- Conclusion: in comparison. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Divination's grasp |
ISBN: | 0-253-01895-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797632603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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