Divination's Grasp: African Encounters With The Almost Said

Sociolinguistics and poetics -- Deep dialogue with Evans-Pritchard -- In praise of the moral imagination -- Acrobatic stylistics, agonistic vision -- From tablet archive to wisdom seances -- Poetics and archives -- Family seances : rhetoric, deliberations, and decisions -- Cosmic and personal understandings : diviners, headmen, strangers -- From hooved archive to charismatic seances -- A charismatic diviner's archive : hooved divination -- The cross-over: originality, hybridity, and metamorphosis -- The charismatic seance : arguments, intimacy, and intimations -- Conclusion: in comparison

• | Author: Richard P. Werbner
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 346 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0253018811
• | ISBN-13: 9780253018816