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Divination's Grasp

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Divination's Grasp

By Richard Werbner

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About the book

Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancest...Show more

Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780253018816

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Divination's Grasp

Format

Hardcover

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