Divination's grasp : : African encounters with the Almost Said / / Richard Werbner.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington, Indiana : : Indiana University Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.