TY  - BOOK
AU  - Werbner,Richard
TI  - Divination's grasp: African encounters with the Almost Said 
SN  - 9780253018953
AV  - BF1773.2.A356 W47 2015
U1  - 133.30968 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Tswapong (African people)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Fortune-telling
KW  - Africa, Southern
KW  - Divination
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Parapsychology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Tswapong
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wahrsagen
KW  - Southern Africa
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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 ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting
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