Divination's grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said /
Richard Werbner.
- 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations
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.
9780253018953 (e-book)
Divination--Africa, Southern. Fortune-telling--Africa, Southern. Tswapong (African people)--Social life and customs.