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		Hébert, Jean-Claude:



		sikidy system, 54



		Herskovits, M. J.:



		indigenous and foreign forms of divination, 38



		History:



		divination texts and traditions, 38;



		African peoples and study of divination, 39



		Horton, Robin:



		indigenous and foreign forms of divination, 38, 204;



		divination and cultural norms, 135;



		rationalism and anthropological study of divination, 138-39



		House:



		Malagasy astrology, 57-58;



		Temne divination, 144-45



		Huffman, Thomas N.:



		antiquity of divination, 38



		Huizinga, J.:



		association of divination with judicial systems, 13



		Hunting:



		divination and Pagibeti ideology, 101-10



		I



		Illness:



		possession and free divinities, 42;



		structuralist etiology, 113.



		See also Disease; Medicine



		India:



		influence on Malagasy cultural history, 56



		Individualism:



		European/American and communal orientation of African systems of divination, 135



		Initiation, diviners:



		Zulu, 24-25, 27-33;



		Atuot, 45-46;



		Batammaliba and consultation process, 74-78;



		Yaka mediumistic, 114-16;



		Nyole, 158;



		Lobi, 196



		Innovation:



		diviner-client relationship, 187-88



		J



		Jackson, Michael:



		divination and cultural norms, 135;



		functions of divination, 204;



		anthropologist as diviner, 215;



		playfulness of Kuranko divination, 219



		Jahoda, Gustav:



		search for meaningful patterns, 203



		Journey:



		Batammaliba diviners, 77-78



		Judicial systems:



		mediumistic divination among the Yaka, 70, 112



		Jules-Rosette, Benneta:



		on Western scholarly prejudice, 10;



		divination systems and symbols, 202;



		anthropologist as diviner, 215



		Jung, C. G.:



		divination and principle of synchronicity, 134;



		simultaneity and sequencing, 173-74



		Junod, Henri:



		European view of divination, 5;



		indigenous and foreign forms of divination, 38



		K



		Kaguru:



		left and right sides in divination, 198



		Kalabari Ijo:



		skepticism and divination, 194-95



		Kay, Paul:



		simultaneity and sequencing in human cognition, 173



		Kenya:



		simultaneity and sequencing in oracular speech of diviners, 173-89



		Kinship:



		Yaka organization, 114;



		Yaka and uterine descent, 125;



		Nyole knowledge of misfortune, 155



		Kirwen, Michael C.:



		special nature of divinatory communication, 202



		Knowledge:



		Western view of divination, 3;



		divination's role in search for, 37-39, 218-19;



		Nilotic cosmology and divination of Atuot philosophy, 41, 44-51;



		divination in Madagascar, 53-65;



		specialized and Batammaliba diviners, 78-79;



		evaluation of Batammaliba consultation information, 79-81;



		Temne diviners and ethical connotations of hidden, 144;



		Nyole divination and power, 153-71;



		divination and skepticism, 194-95.



		See also Epistemology



		L



		Language:



		use of Arabic and Roman script in Madagascar, 66n;



		Batammaliba symbolic system, 85-88;



		Apagibeti and classification, 102.



		See also Speech



		Lee, S. G.:



		initiation and female dress, 24



		Leech, Gerald:



		deep-structure and surface semantics, 185-86



		Left:



		divination's creation of difference, 197-98;



		diviner's brain, 205



		Legalism:



		analytical divinatory procedures, 142



		Lessa, William A.:



		American study of divination, 6;



		typologies of divination systems, 12



		Levin, S.:



		metaphor and world creation, 219



		Lévi-Strauss, Claude:



		Cuna shaman's song, 70-71;



		bricolage, 183, 184-85, 204;



		description of shamanistic curing, 202



		Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien:



		European view of divination, 5



		Lienhardt, Godfrey:



		British study of divination, 9;



		Dinka and free divinities, 42;



		possession and divination, 43;



		social creation of truth, 140



		Liminality:



		diviners and divination event, 197



		Listening:



		Yaka divination, 118



		Lobi:



		account of origin of divination, 37-38;



		divination and social authority, 69, 70;



		culture and divination, 91-99;



		separation of divination from normal activities, 195-96



		Logic:



		Evans-Pritchard on Zande divination, 141;



		divination and world building, 216-17



		Lugbara:



		authority and divination, 168;



		diviners and gender, 196



		M



		Madagascar:



		formal training of diviners, 25;



		mythology and divination, 37;



		role of divination in search for knowledge, 39, 53-65



		Malinowski, Bronislaw:



		Evans-Pritchard on study of religion, 8



		Mann, Thomas:



		anthropology of divination, 153



		Mauss, Marcel:



		French study of divination, 6;



		diviners and world synthesis, 220



		Mbiti, John:



		lack of research on African divination, 1



		Medicine:



		Apagibeti and sorcery, 102-103;



		Nyole and Western views of diagnosis, 155-56;



		sexual politics of Nyole divination, 169.



		See also Disease; Health care; Illness

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