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African Divination
African Divination Systems
African divinatory systems
Ancient Mystery Cults
anthropology of religion
Book III
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Chuang Tzu
curry
divinatory
Drawn Back
dream
Dream Oracles
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epistemology of ritual
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Essential Divination
Inductive Divination
Ivory Coast
Ix Chel
Liminal Beings
Mundus Imaginalis
Natural Human Faculty
Novaya Zemlya
Old Field
oracle
oracle traditions
Panthera Tigris Sumatrae
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Patrick Curry
philosophical analysis of divination
Practitioner Divination
Prehistoric Burial Mounds
reflexivity in scholarship
Salvia Divinorum
shamanic practices
Spirit Lore
Stochastic Art
systems
Vice Versa
viveiros
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138268210
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book explores philosophical issues such as the nature of divinatory intelligence, the relationship between divinatory and metaphorical truth, the primacy of ontology over epistemology, the importance of reflexivity in scholarly studies of divination, and astrology as the principal Western form of divination. The ethnographic and historical examples range from contemporary Nigeria, urban Cuba, Mayan Guatemala and the shamanic cultures of the circumpolar Arctic to classical Greece and ancient Judea.
Patrick Curry holds an honorary research fellowship in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales at Lampeter. He taught an MA in Cultural Cosmology and Divination at the University of Kent, and is co-author , with Roy Willis, of Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon (Oxford: Berg, 2004).
