Divination's Grasp - by Richard Werbner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Werbner's <em>Divination's Grasp</em> documents a long and distinguished career in the service of anthropology. It will be a touchstone for anthropological studies of divination for years to come.</p></p>-- "American Ethnologist"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of <i>Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana</i> (IUP).</p>
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