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viii, 209 pages : 29 cm "Focusing on the role of artistry in African divination rituals, this book's fifteen essays by leading scholars reveal the similarities and differences in the practices of a wide range of sub-Saharan cultures. While suggesting that a shared tradition underlies the religious and artistic expressions of the Yoruba, Luba, Chokwe, Yaka, Pende, Punu, Guro, and other peoples of the region, the contributors also document variation in words, sounds, and gestures as well as in the ritual artifacts themselves - not only from one divination system to another but also within individual communities."--Jacket Includes bibliographical references and index The cultural tradition of the African forests / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Recasting divination research / Philip M. Peek -- Telling and foretelling: African divination and art in wider perspective / John Mack -- Muslim divination and the history of religion of sub-Saharan Africa / Louis Brenner -- Proofs and promises: setting meaning before the eyes / Mary Nooter Roberts -- Difficult decisions, perilous acts: producing potent histories with the Tabwa boiling-water oracle / Allen F. Roberts -- Smells and bells: the role of skepticism in Pende divination / Z.S. Strother -- The slit-drum and body imagery in mediumistic divination among the Yaka / René Devisch -- Art and divination among Chokwe, Lunda, Luvale, and other related peoples of northwestern Zambia / Manuel Jordán -- Divination as a fundamental organizing principle in equatorial Africa / Alisa LaGamma -- Where the mouse is omniscient: the mouse oracle among the Guro / Lorenz Homberger -- Variations on a theme: ritual, performance, intellect / Barry Hallen -- Continuity and change in the verbal, artistic, ritualistic, and performance traditions of Ifa divination / Wande Abimbola -- Riding the horse of praise: the mounted figure motif in Ifa divination sculpture / Rowland Abiodun

Chủ đề: Divination -- Africa, Central, Art, Black -- Africa, Central, Divination -- Africa, West, Art, Black -- Africa, West, Art, Black, Divination, Fortune-telling, Arts, Rituals, Central Africa, West Africa, Westafrika, Zentralafrika, Africa

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