African divination systems : ways of knowing. edited by Philip M. Peek

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Titre:
African divination systems : ways of knowing. edited by Philip M. Peek
Contributeur: Peek, Philip M
Sujets: Divination -- Afrique noire;
Divination -- Afrique du Sud;
Divination -- Burkina Faso;
Divination -- Congo (République démocratique);
Divination -- Kenya;
Divination -- Madagascar;
Divination -- Sierra Leone;
Divination -- Togo;
Divination -- Africa, Sub-Saharan;
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social life and customs;
Afrique noire -- Moeurs et coutumes;
Zoulous (peuple d'Afrique) -- Initiation;
Ethnomédecine -- Divination -- Afrique
Description: Bibliogr.
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 Atuot philosophy / John W. Burton Divination in Madagascar : the Antemoro case and the diffusion of divination / Pierre Vérin 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 / René 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 (cont.) Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek
Titres liés: Collection :African systems of thought
Éditeur: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1991
Date de publication: c1991
Format: 1 vol. (VIII-230 p.) : ill., carte ; 25 cm
Langue: Anglais

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African divination systems : ways of knowing. edited by Philip M. Peek

Peek, Philip M c1991

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