| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 19, 2015) |
| Subject |
Tswapong (African people) -- Social life and customs
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Fortune-telling -- Africa, Southern
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Divination -- Africa, Southern
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Divination
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Fortune-telling
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Tswapong
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Wahrsagen
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Southern Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253018953 |
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0253018951 |
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