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Divinations Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said

Divinations Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said

by RichardWerbner (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

    $105.57
Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01 Dec 2015
ISBN 10: 0253018811
ISBN 13: 9780253018816
Book Overview: Honorable Mention, 2016 Elliott P. Skinner Award

Media Reviews

Werbner's Divination's Grasp documents a long and distinguished career in the service of anthropology. It will be a touchstone for anthropological studies of divination for years to come.

* American Ethnologist *
Author Bio

Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana (IUP).