Mambila divination : framing questions, constructing answers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zeitlyn, David (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:	Routledge studies in anthropology.
Subjects:	Divination > Cameroon. Mambila (African people) > Cameroon > Religion. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction. Divination studies in the twenty-first century: setting the research agenda; Part I: Studying; 2. Techniques of divination: studies in interpretation; 3. Finding meaning in the text: the process of interpretation in text-based divination. Leavis in the bush; 4. Spiders in and out of court: styles of spider divination in their sociological contexts; 5: Divinatory logics: how diagnoses and predictions mediate outcomes; Part II: Doing; 6. Mambila Divination; 7. Case studies: logic in action; Part III: Using; 8. Framing questions: does divination pay attention to pragmatics?; 9. A sociology of problems; 10. Divination in life histories