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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11928857.
- catalog contributor b11928858.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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 / 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.".
- catalog description "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 / 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 209 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1560988592 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1560988843 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Central".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Central.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, West".
- catalog spatial "Africa, West.".
- catalog subject "133.3/0967 21".
- catalog subject "Art, Black Africa, Central Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Art, Black Africa, Central.".
- catalog subject "Art, Black Africa, West Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Art, Black Africa, West.".
- catalog subject "BF1812.A352 I57 2000".
- catalog subject "Ceremonial objects Africa, Central Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Ceremonial objects Africa, West Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Divination Africa, Central Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Divination Africa, Central.".
- catalog subject "Divination Africa, West Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Divination Africa, West.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 / 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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 / 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.".
- catalog title "Insight and artistry in African divination / edited by John Pemberton.".
- catalog type "text".