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Title:

Insight and artistry in African divination / edited by John Pemberton III.

Publisher:

Smithsonian Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

viii, 209 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Divination--Africa, Central.
Art, Black--Africa, Central.
Divination--Africa, West.
Art, Black--Africa, West.

Other Authors:

Pemberton, John, 1928-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781560988847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1560988843 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42980161

LCCN:

99059622

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)