Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said
by Richard Werbner
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Hardback. New. Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting.
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- Title
- Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said
- Author
- Richard Werbner
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- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0253018811
- ISBN 13
- 9780253018816
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- This edition first published
- 2015
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