African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing

This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination. . . . this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research. --Journal of Ritual Studies

The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study. --Choice

This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.

Author: Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 05/22/1991
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.11w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780253206534