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African Divination Systems

Ways of Knowing

by Philip Peek & Philip M. Peek

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1991

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.

  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from bne, crossref, libris, openalex, and swisscovery matched “adivinación”, “divination”, and “Wahrsagung”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the title, “adivinación” in the subject metadata, “Divination” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “adivinación”· via Biblioteca Nacional de España
    • “divination”· via Crossref
    • “divination”· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
    • “divination”· via OpenAlex
    • “Wahrsagung”· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform
    • “Divination”· in title
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from swisscovery matched “Prophezeiung”. Retained metadata contains “Prophezeiung” in the subject metadata.

    • “Prophezeiung”· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform
    • “Prophezeiung”· in subject

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Ways of Knowing

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25 cm; 653; A Midland book; African systems of thought; ill; Index; Introduction: the study of divination, present and past / Philip M. Peek. Part One: Becoming a diviner. The initiation of a Zulu diviner / Henry Callaway. Part Two: The search for knowledge. Nilotic cosmology and the divination of Atuot philosophy / John W. Burton. Divination in Madagascar: The Antemoro case and the diffusion of divination / Pierre Vérin and Narivelo Rajaonarimanana. Part Three: Cultural systems within divination systems. Diviners as alienists and annunciators among the Batammaliba of Togo / Rudolph Blier. Divination among the Lobi of Burkina Faso / Piet Meyer. Divination and the hunt in Pagibeti ideology / Alden Almquist. Mediumistic divination among the northern Yaka of Zaire: etiology and ways of knowing / René Devisch. Part Four: Divination, epistemology, and truth. Splitting truths from darkness: epistemological aspects of Temne divination / Rosalind Shaw. Knowledge and power in Nyole divination / Susan Reynolds Whyte. Simultaneity and sequencing in the oracular speech of Kenyan diviners / David Parkin. Part Five: Toward a new approach to divination. African divination systems: non-normal modes of cognition / Philip M. Peek. Afterword / James W. Fernandez; Literaturangaben; swisscovery holding institutions: 41SLSP_IID, 41SLSP_RZS, 41SLSP_UBS, 41SLSP_UNE, 41SLSP_UZB, 41SLSP_VGE; VIII, 230 p

1991Indiana Univ. Press; Indiana University Press; Indiana University Press eBooksEnglish
  • 9780253113801
  • 9780253206534
  • 9780253343093
  • 0253206537
  • +1 more
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