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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to thespine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description(viii, 230 pages) : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Contents; The study of divination, present and past / Philip M. Peek -- Becoming a diviner. The initiation of a Zulu diviner / Henry Callaway -- The search for knowledge. Nilotic cosmology and the divination of Atuophilosophy / John W. Burton -- Divination in Madagascar : the Antemoro case and the diffusion of divination. Pierre Vérin and Narivelo Rajaonarimanana -- 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…
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African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing Hardcover - 1991
by Philip M. Peek (Other)
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- Title African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing
- Author Philip M. Peek (Other)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 230
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington
- Date June 1991
- ISBN 9780253343093 / 0253343097
- Library of Congress subjects Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social life and customs, Divination - Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90039421
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.309
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