Divination''s Grasp - African Encounters With the Almost Said

Informationen zum Autor Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana (IUP). Klappentext Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana (IUP). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part I. Socio-linguistics and poetics 1. Deep Dialogue with Evans-Pritchard 2. In Praise of the Moral Imagination 3. Acrobatic Stylistics, Agonistic Vision Part II. From Tablet Archive to Wisdom Séances 4. Poetics and Archives 5. Family Séances: Rhetoric, Deliberations and Decisions 6. Cosmic and Personal Understandings: Diviners, Headmen, Strangers Part III. From Hooved Archive to Charismatic Séances 7. A Charismatic Diviner's Archive: Hooved Divination 8. The Cross-Over: Originality, Hybridity and Metamorphosis 9. The Charismatic Séance: Arguments, Intimacy and Intimations Conclusion: In Comparison Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Richard Werbner, Werbner Richard
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780253018816
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01881-6
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Life interpretation; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous