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AFRICAN DIVINATION SYSTEMS
WAYS OF KNOWING |
| By: |
Philip M. Peek (Editor) |
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Book |
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£21.99 |
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£18.69 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253206537 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253206534 |
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| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 May, 1991 |
| Series: |
African Systems of Thought |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
A collection of essays that demonstrate the central role that divination plays throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. It offers insights for discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology. |
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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 StudiesThe essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -ChoiceThis 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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1991. |
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