Divination perspectives for a new millennium

This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspective...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Curry, Patrick (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, VT : Ashgate cop. 2010.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theorizing divinatory acts: the integrative discourse of dream oracles / Barbara Tedlock
  • "Twinning" and "perfect knowledge" in African systems of divination / Philip Peek
  • Memoir as method or "what the devil was I up to anyway?" / Laura Grillo
  • Central Asian and northern European Shamanism / Juha Pentikainen
  • The carbon footprint of oracles: how green is divination? / Stuart Harrop
  • Embodiment, alterity, and agency in divination: resolving antinomies / Patrick Curry
  • Chicane: double-thinking and divination amongst the witch-doctors / Geoffrey Cornelius
  • Darwin's fortune, Jonah's shipmates, and the persistence of chance / Evan Heimlich
  • Arrows, aiming, and divination: astrology as a stochastic art / Dorian Greenbaum
  • The descent of Orpheus and life between lives dialogue: divination, initiation or therapy? / Angela Voss
  • Talking and walking with spirits: fresh perspectives on a medieval necromantic system / Paul Devereux
  • Clarifying divinatory dialogue: a proposal for a distinction between practitioner divination and essential divination / Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp and John Wadsworth
  • Afterword / Martin Holbraad.