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Divination's Grasp Richard Werbner

Divination's Grasp By Richard Werbner

Divination's Grasp by Richard Werbner


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Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said by Richard Werbner

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.

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Werbner's Divination's Grasp documents a long and distinguished career in the service of anthropology. It will be a touchstone for anthropological studies of divination for years to come.

* American Ethnologist *

About Richard Werbner

Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana (IUP).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Socio-linguistics and poetics
1. Deep Dialogue with Evans-Pritchard
2. In Praise of the Moral Imagination
3. Acrobatic Stylistics, Agonistic Vision
Part II. From Tablet Archive to Wisdom Seances
4. Poetics and Archives
5. Family Seances: Rhetoric, Deliberations and Decisions
6. Cosmic and Personal Understandings: Diviners, Headmen, Strangers
Part III. From Hooved Archive to Charismatic Seances
7. A Charismatic Diviner's Archive: Hooved Divination
8. The Cross-Over: Originality, Hybridity and Metamorphosis
9. The Charismatic Seance: Arguments, Intimacy and Intimations
Conclusion: In Comparison
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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CIN0253018897G
9780253018892
0253018897
Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said by Richard Werbner
Used - Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2015-11-15
346
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