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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Werbner, Richard P.
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Subjects:	Divination > Africa, Southern. Fortune-telling > Africa, Southern. Tswapong (African people) > Social life and customs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.