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		Semantics:



		sequencing and simultaneity in speech of Kenyan diviners, 185-86



		Sequencing:



		oracular speech of Kenyan diviners, 173-89



		Sexuality:



		diviners and gender, 196



		Shamans:



		Lévi-Strauss, 70-71, 202;



		Kenyan diviners, 188n



		Shaw, Rosalind:



		analytical and revelatory dimensions of divination, 12, 13;



		epistemological foundations of an-bere divination, 133;



		gender-based patterns of divinatory consultation, 133-34, 169;



		positivism and study of divination, 135;



		anthropologist as diviner, 215;



		cryptic potency of divination, 217



		Sikidy system:



		interpretation of configurations, 53-54;



		description of technique, 61-62;



		phases of divination session, 62-63, 65



		Simultaneity:



		oracular speech of Kenyan diviners, 173-89



		Skepticism:



		divination and search for knowledge, 194-95



		Skorupski, J.:



		contrast between secular and mystical, 187



		Slit-gong:



		Yaka divination, 115, 120



		Sorcery:



		divination in Madagascar, 54;



		Apagibeti culture, 102-103;



		Yaka oracles, 121-23, 128;



		Nyole divination and misfortune, 155.



		See also Witchcraft



		Spatial regions:



		Temne divination, 143



		Speech:



		Nyole diviners and spirits, 159, 165;



		simultaneity and sequencing among Kenyan diviners, 173-89;



		divination and liminality, 200, 202



		Spiders:



		divination in Cameroon, 197, 198



		Spirits:



		Nyole divination, 154-55, 157-59, 161-62, 169;



		names of Nyole, 171n.



		See also Possession, spirit



		Status:



		hierarchy among diviners in Kenya, 175



		Steiner, Franz Baermann:



		divination and problem solving, 135;



		positivist view of truth, 139-40



		Suthers, Ellen Moore:



		diviner-client relationship, 204



		Swahili:



		Kenyan diviners, 179-81



		Symbols:



		Batammaliba divination, 85-88;



		divination systems and configurations, 202



		T



		Temne:



		divination and epistemology, 137-50;



		gender politics of divination, 169



		Thila:



		divination and Lobi culture, 92-94, 98-99



		Time:



		liminality of divination event, 197



		Togo:



		Batammaliba diviners, 73-90



		Tortoises:



		divination in Nigeria, 198



		Training:



		diviners and formal, 25



		Tree:



		Yaka symbol of life source, 124-25



		Trickster:



		Dogon Pale Fox myth, 140-41;



		Temne divination, 142-43;



		relationship to divination, 195, 207n



		Truth:



		divination and epistemology, 133-35;



		performative efficacy and cryptic potency, 139-41;



		Temne divination and epistemology, 145-50



		Turner, Victor W.:



		British study of divination, 9;



		analogy of anthropological diviner, 10;



		rationalism and divinatory symbolism, 141-42;



		diviners and social commentary, 187;



		time and place of divination, 197;



		Ndembu basket divination, 207n



		Tylor, Edward Burnett:



		European scholarship and study of divination, 5



		U



		Uchendu, Victor C.:



		Igbo world view, 195



		Uncles:



		Yaka kinship system, 125



		V



		Vansina, Jan:



		Bushong and Kuba histories and divination customs, 38



		Vérin, Pierre:



		role of divination in search for knowledge, 39;



		typologies and divination systems, 216



		Vig, Lars:



		sikidy divination system, 53-54, 65;



		Malagasy calendars, 60



		Vision:



		terms for divination, 143-44;



		divination's liminality, 199-200



		Vogt, Evon Z.:



		American study of divination, 6;



		typologies of divination systems, 13



		W



		deWaal Malejifit, Annemarie:



		typologies of divination systems, 11-12



		Werbner, Richard P.:



		divinatory rhetoric, 134;



		revelatory and analytical modes of divination, 142;



		Kalanga divination and language of metaphors, 218-19



		Westerlund, David:



		comparative studies of African religions, 10



		Western/European scholarship:



		systems of knowledge and view of divination, 3;



		background to study of divination, 5-7;



		individualism and communal orientation of African systems of divination, 135;



		rationalism and truth, 137;



		dichotomization of modes of thinking, 194



		Whyte, Susan Reynolds:



		Nyole divination and pathologies of social relations, 133;



		gender-based patterns of divinatory consultation, 133-34;



		cryptic potency of divination, 217



		Wilderness:



		metaphor of change and Kenyan diviners, 175.



		See also Forest



		Willis, R. G.:



		scientific theory of specialists, 156



		Witchcraft:



		British study of divination, 9;



		Pagibeti divination, 110;



		Temne diviners, 144;



		Temne and public divination performance, 148-49.



		See also Sorcery



		Women:



		Atuot divination, 47;



		Batammaliba diviners, 77;



		Nyole diviners, 156-57;



		sexual politics of Nyole divination, 167-70.



		See also Gender

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