Divination's grasp African encounters with the Almost Said / Richard Werbner.

Author/creator Werbner, Richard P.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Descriptionxii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015027462
ISBN9780253018816 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253018892 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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