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Divination and the Hunt in Pagibeti Ideology
Alden Almquist
101
Mediumistic Divination among the Northern Yaka of Zaire: Etiology and Ways of Knowing
René Devisch
112
Part Four. Divination, Epistemology, and Truth
133
Splitting Truths from Darkness: Epistemological Aspects of Temne Divination
Rosalind Shaw
137
Knowledge and Power in Nyole Divination
Susan Reynolds Whyte
153
Simultaneity and Sequencing in the Oracular Speech of Kenyan Diviners
David Parkin
173
Part Five. Toward a New Approach to Divination
191
African Divination Systems: Non-Normal Modes of Cognition
Philip M. Peek
193
Afterword
James W. Fernandez
213
Contributors
223
Index
225

 
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