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Divination and Healing: Potent Vision »
Authors: Michael Winkelman, Philip M. Peek, Michael Winkelman
ISBN-13: 9780816523771, ISBN-10: 0816523770
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Michael Winkelman
Philip M. Peek is Professor of Anthropology at Drew University. He is editor of African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing and co-editor of African Folklore: An Encyclopedia.
Book Synopsis
Anthropologists investigate the processes and mechanisms of divinatory revelations and their therapeutic effects from traditional, modern, and post-modern perspectives. They illustrate the social context by describing the negotiation that produces an acceptable interpretation of revelation, a plan of action, and the transaction of a therapeutic process. The 11 essays cover epistemologies and cosmologies, varieties of divinatory experiences, and divination and healing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Introduction : divination and healing process | 3 | |
| 1 | In search of the real : the healing contingency of Sukuma divination | 29 |
| 2 | Drumming, divination, and healing : the community at work | 55 |
| 3 | Calendrical divination by the Ixil Maya of Guatemala | 81 |
| 4 | Owner of the day and regulator of the universe : Ifa divination and healing among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria | 103 |
| 5 | Divination in North American Indian shamanic healing | 121 |
| 6 | Ways of knowing and healing : shamanism in the Republics of Tuva and Buryatia in post-Soviet Russia | 139 |
| 7 | Divination in multireligious Southeast Asia : the case of Thailand | 167 |
| 8 | Healing through the spirits : divination and healing among the Jaunsaris of Uttrakhand, India | 183 |
| 9 | The Laibon diviner and healer among Samburu pastoralists of Kenya | 207 |
| 10 | The Ngawbe all-night home-based vigil : diviner-mediated intrafamilial healing | 227 |
| 11 | Yaka divination : acting out the memory of society's life-spring | 243 |
Subjects
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