African divination systems : ways of knowing / edited by Philip M. Peek
by Peek, Philip M
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. 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 V�rin 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 / Ren� 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. Adivinha��es. Cultura �frica. Divination Afrique noire. Divination Afrique du Sud. Divination Burkina Faso. Divination Congo (R�publique d�mocratique)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 M�urs 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.
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- Title
- African divination systems : ways of knowing / edited by Philip M. Peek
- Author
- Peek, Philip M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0253343097
- ISBN 13
- 9780253343093
- Publisher
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington
- Date Published
- 1991
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