Divination's grasp

• Verfasst von: Werbner, Richard P. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Divination's grasp
• Titelzusatz: African encounters with the almost said
• Verf.angabe: Richard Werbner
• Verlagsort: Bloomington, IN ; Indianapolis, IN
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Jahr: 2015
• Umfang: xii, 340 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 23 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0-253-01881-1
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01895-3
• ISBN: 0-253-01889-7
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01881-6
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01889-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Subsaharisches Afrika / (s)Wahrsagen
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: LC 33519
• RVK-Notation: LB 46550
• K10plus-PPN: 1627779485

Abstract

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