The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power Among the Uduk of Sudan

This groundbreaking study explores the notions of person, and the foundations of bodily and moral experience among the Uduk-speaking people of the Sudan-Ethiopian border. James focuses particularly on enduring elements of personal knowledge in the context of a hunter's world-view, how alien religious discourse has affected the Uduk in the course of the region's political history, and the rise of a new diviners' movement based upon the oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood.


Author: Wendy James
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/09/2000
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780198234166

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