Werbner, Richard P.,

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.


Electronic books.

BF1773.2.A356 / W47 2015

133.30968