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of one diviner repeats this communion, which becomes deeper and more permanent. The client strikes a lasting alliance with a man who can mediate in the business of supernatural causation. (1972:208) |
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19. The Lele also associate twins and divination (Douglas 1984a). |
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20. Bourguignon's mapping of sub-Saharan cultures with and without trance or trance possession reflects the diversity of practices among contiguous peoples (1968:355), and Southall (1972) specifically addresses the issue of antithetical symbolic structures of neighboring peoples. |
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21. In their important review article and subsequent discussion in Current Anthropology, Paredes and Hepburn (1976) argue that cognitive differences between cultures may result from different hemispherical orientations. Springer and Deutsch (1981) summarize relevant research. Crick extends this important issue to anthropology: |
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But language is particularly associated with the left hemisphere of the brain, the right side being associated with pattern recognition and intuition rather than "rationality." While anthropologists have normally spoken of modes of thought varying cross-culturally, it is obvious that there are different modes of processing information, different types of knowledge, and different methods of apperception within each human brain. (1982:301) |
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22. Although Jaynes's work is problematic owing to his literalness, it should be noted that he argues that divination was invented "to supplement right hemisphere function . . . following the breakdown of the bi-cameral mind" (1976:240). |
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23. See Dobkin de Rios and Schroeder (1979) and Gardner (1981) for further discussion of the alternations of right and left hemispheres. |
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Abimbola, 'Wande. 1977. Ifa Divination Poetry. New York: Nok Publishers. |
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Adler, A., and A. Zempléni. 1972. Le bâton de l'aveugle: Divination, maladie et pouvoir chez les Moundang du Tchad. Paris: Hermann. |
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Ahern, Emily Martin. 1981. Chinese Ritual and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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Ahern, Emily Martin. 1982. "Rules in Oracles and Games." Man n.s. 17(2):302-12. |
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Avery, Catherine B. 1962. The New Century Classical Handbook. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. |
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Bascom, William R. 1969. Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. |
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Bascom, William R. 1975. African Dilemma Tales. The Hague: Mouton. |
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Bascom, William R. 1980. Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. |
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Bateson, Gregory. 1974. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine. |
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Bauer, Dan F., and John Hinnant. 1980. "Normal and Revolutionary Divination: A Kuhnian Approach to African Traditional Thought." In Explorations in African Systems of Thought, ed. Ivan Karp and Charles S. Bird, 213-36. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. |
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