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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
The Study of Divination, Present and Past
Philip M. Peek
1
Part One. Becoming a Diviner
23
The Initiation of a Zulu Diviner
Henry Callaway
27
Part Two. The Search for Knowledge
37
Nilotic Cosmology and the Divination of Atuot Philosophy
John W. Burton
41
Divination in Madagascar: The Antemoro Case and the Diffusion of Divination
Pierre Vérin and Narivelo Rajaonarimanana
53
Part Three. Cultural Systems within Divination Systems
69
Diviners as Alienists and Annunciators among the Batammaliba of Togo
Rudolph Blier
73
Divination among the Lobi of Burkina Faso
Piet Meyer
91

 
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