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010 a| 90039421;

020 a| 0253343097 (cloth : alk. paper);

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050 00 a| BF1773.2.A4b| A37 1991;

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092 a| 133.30967b| Af8;

245 00 a| African divination systems :b| ways of knowing /c| edited by Philip M. Peek.;

300 a| viii, 230 pages :b| illustrations, 1 map ;c| 25 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| African systems of thought;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

505 0 a| (cont.) Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek.;

650 0 a| Divinationz| Africa, Sub-Saharan.=| ^A26425;

651 0 a| Africa, Sub-Saharanx| Social life and customs.=| ^A990180;

700 1 a| Peek, Philip M.=| ^A301415;

830 0 a| African systems of thought.=| ^A233057;

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998 a| 447345;

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

Other author	Peek, Philip M.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1991.
Description	viii, 230 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Divination--Africa, Sub-Saharan. Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social life and customs.

Series	African systems of thought African systems of thought. ^A233057
Contents	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.
Contents	(cont.) Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems : non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek.
Local note	Little-306309--305131011820P
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	90039421
ISBN	0253343097 (cloth : alk. paper)

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

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