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"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of Ritual Studies "The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -- Choice This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.


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  • Author : Philip M. Peek
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 246 pages
  • ISBN : 9780253343093
  • PDF File Size : 31,6 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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African Divination Systems

African Divination Systems
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • File Size : 45,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 May 1991
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"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further

Reviewing Reality

Reviewing Reality
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • File Size : 34,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 May 2024
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From crab divination in the Cameroon to friction oracles in the Congo Basin, from reading cast objects in Mozambique to spirit possession in Cote d'Ivoire, from Sudanese ebony diviners to

Art and Oracle

Art and Oracle
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • File Size : 27,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 May 2024
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Twenty-eight African cultures are represented here by artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods, about such issues as health, conception, and determination of guilt or innocence. Issued in

African Religions

African Religions
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 48,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 May 2024
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This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.

African Cowrie Shells Divination

African Cowrie Shells Divination
  • Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
  • File Size : 49,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 April 2019
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Discover the Cowrie Shells and Learn How to Read the Messages of Ifá and the Higher Spiritual Planes Divination with cowrie shells is one of the oldest known spiritual practices

Ifa Divination

Ifa Divination
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • File Size : 42,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 11 March 1991
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"The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and

Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance

Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • File Size : 45,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 February 2016
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This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested

INSIGHT & ARTISTRY AFRICAN DIV PB

INSIGHT & ARTISTRY AFRICAN DIV PB
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
  • File Size : 46,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 17 November 2000
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This volume, which grew from a 1996 symposium at Amherst College in Massachusetts, focuses on the rituals and associated objects of divination in central and western Africa, with consideration of three

Sixteen Cowries

Sixteen Cowries
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • File Size : 49,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 22 May 1980
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" . . . a landmark in research of African oral traditions." —African Arts " . . . a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art." —Journal of Religion in Africa Yoruba texts

Afa

Afa
  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
  • File Size : 55,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 11 November 2020
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Afa is an ancient system of divination that is widely used in many indigenous African traditional spiritual systems throughout West Africa, and in the global Diaspora. It is a complete