Divination : perspectives for a new millennium / edited by Patrick Curry.
2010
BF1751 .D62 2010eb
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Title
Divination : perspectives for a new millennium / edited by Patrick Curry.
ISBN
9781409405566 (electronic bk.)
1409405567 (electronic bk.)
128277400X
9781282774001
9781409405559
1409405559
1409405567 (electronic bk.)
128277400X
9781282774001
9781409405559
1409405559
Imprint
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
BF1751 .D62 2010eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)754773653
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Theorizing divinatory acts: the integrative discourse of dream oracles / Barbara Tedlock
"Twinning" and "perfect knowledge" in African systems of divination / Philip Peek
Memoir as method or "what the devil was I up to anyway?" / Laura Grillo
Central Asian and northern European Shamanism / Juha Pentikainen
The carbon footprint of oracles: how green is divination? / Stuart Harrop
Embodiment, alterity, and agency in divination: resolving antinomies / Patrick Curry
Chicane: double-thinking and divination amongst the witch-doctors / Geoffrey Cornelius
Darwin's fortune, Jonah's shipmates, and the persistence of chance / Evan Heimlich
Arrows, aiming, and divination: astrology as a stochastic art / Dorian Greenbaum
The descent of Orpheus and life between lives dialogue: divination, initiation or therapy? / Angela Voss
Talking and walking with spirits: fresh perspectives on a medieval necromantic system / Paul Devereux
Clarifying divinatory dialogue: a proposal for a distinction between practitioner divination and essential divination / Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp and John Wadsworth
Afterword / Martin Holbraad.
"Twinning" and "perfect knowledge" in African systems of divination / Philip Peek
Memoir as method or "what the devil was I up to anyway?" / Laura Grillo
Central Asian and northern European Shamanism / Juha Pentikainen
The carbon footprint of oracles: how green is divination? / Stuart Harrop
Embodiment, alterity, and agency in divination: resolving antinomies / Patrick Curry
Chicane: double-thinking and divination amongst the witch-doctors / Geoffrey Cornelius
Darwin's fortune, Jonah's shipmates, and the persistence of chance / Evan Heimlich
Arrows, aiming, and divination: astrology as a stochastic art / Dorian Greenbaum
The descent of Orpheus and life between lives dialogue: divination, initiation or therapy? / Angela Voss
Talking and walking with spirits: fresh perspectives on a medieval necromantic system / Paul Devereux
Clarifying divinatory dialogue: a proposal for a distinction between practitioner divination and essential divination / Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp and John Wadsworth
Afterword / Martin Holbraad.
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