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

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

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Author / Creator:Werbner, Richard, author.
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Tswapong (African people) -- Social life and customs.
Fortune-telling -- Africa, Southern.
Divination -- Africa, Southern.
Divination.
Fortune-telling.
Southern Africa.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12017342
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ISBN:9780253018953
0253018951
9780253018816
9780253018892
0253018811
0253018897
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 19, 2015).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Werbner, Richard. Divination's grasp. 0253018811 9780253018816

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