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Divination's grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said / / Richard Werbner



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Autore: Werbner Richard P. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Divination's grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said / / Richard Werbner Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-253-01895-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797632603321
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