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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 *

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Socio-linguistics and poetics
1. Deep Dialogue with Evans-Pritchard
2. In Praise of the Moral Imagination
3. Acrobatic Stylistics, Agonistic Vision
Part II. From Tablet Archive to Wisdom Séances
4. Poetics and Archives
5. Family Séances: Rhetoric, Deliberations and Decisions
6. Cosmic and Personal Understandings: Diviners, Headmen, Strangers
Part III. From Hooved Archive to Charismatic Séances
7. A Charismatic Diviner's Archive: Hooved Divination
8. The Cross-Over: Originality, Hybridity and Metamorphosis
9. The Charismatic Séance: Arguments, Intimacy and Intimations
Conclusion: In Comparison
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Divinations Grasp

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 15 November 2015
      ISBN-13 9780253018892
      978-0253018892
      ISBN-10 0253018897

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      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 *

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Introduction
      Part I. Socio-linguistics and poetics
      1. Deep Dialogue with Evans-Pritchard
      2. In Praise of the Moral Imagination
      3. Acrobatic Stylistics, Agonistic Vision
      Part II. From Tablet Archive to Wisdom Séances
      4. Poetics and Archives
      5. Family Séances: Rhetoric, Deliberations and Decisions
      6. Cosmic and Personal Understandings: Diviners, Headmen, Strangers
      Part III. From Hooved Archive to Charismatic Séances
      7. A Charismatic Diviner's Archive: Hooved Divination
      8. The Cross-Over: Originality, Hybridity and Metamorphosis
      9. The Charismatic Séance: Arguments, Intimacy and Intimations
      Conclusion: In Comparison
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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