Divination
Subtitle: perspectives for a new millenium
By: [edited by] Patrick Curry
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781409405559
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing divinatory acts : the integrative discourse of dream oracles / Barbara Tedlock; title: "Twinning" and "perfect knowledge" in African systems of divination / Philip Peek; title: Memoir as method or "what the devil was I up to anyway?" / Laura Grillo; title: Central Asian and northern European Shamanism / Juha Pentikainen; title: The carbon footprint of oracles : how green is divination? / Stuart Harrop; title: Embodiment, alterity, and agency in divination : resolving antinomies / Patrick Curry; title: Chicane : double-thinking and divination amongst the witch-doctors / Geoffrey Cornelius; title: Darwin's fortune, Jonah's shipmates, and the persistence of chance / Evan Heimlich; title: Arrows, aiming, and divination : astrology as a stochastic art / Dorian Greenbaum; title: The descent of Orpheus and life between lives dialogue : divination, initiation or therapy? / Angela Voss; title: Talking and walking with spirits : fresh perspectives on a medieval necromantic system / Paul Devereux; title: Clarifying divinatory dialogue : a proposal for a distinction between practitioner divination and essential divination / Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp and John Wadsworth; title: Afterword / Martin Holbraad.