'It's just the starting engine': the status of spirits and objects in south Mozambican divination

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(1)REVIEWING REALITY Dynamics of African divination edited by. Walter E. A. van Beek and Philip M. Peek. LIT.

(2) Afrikanische Studien African Studies Band/Volume 50. LIT.

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(4) Table of contents Philip Peek and Walter van Beek Reality Reviewed: Dynamics of African Divination. 1. Section 1: Know ThyseH: Knowledge and Healing René Devisch Of Divinatory Co-naissance among the Yaka of the DR Congo. 25. Nomfundo Lily-Rose Mlisa Intuition as Divination among the Xhosa of South Africa. 59. Philip Peek The Communal Self: Diviners, Twins, and Doubles. 83. Véronique Duchesne The Boson Orade's Performance. Frame and Expressivity in Anyi Divrnation. 99. Aderemi Suleíman Ajala Ifa Dination. A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Device in the Yoruba Healing System. 115. Section 2: A window on social reality Albert de Surgy Why Divination is an Important Topic. 141. Eis Baerends Underground Judgment. Divination and Social Control among the Anufam of Northern Togo. 159. Walter van Beek Crab Divination among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. 185. Paulo Granjo 'U' s Just the Starting Engine'. The Status of Spirits and Objects in South Mozambican Divination. 211.

(5) Section 3: Visions over time and space Wendy James The 'Listening Ebony' Revisited. 239. Julie Ndaya 'Take Your Pen', Self-divination in the Congolese Diaspora. 257. Luc Pecquet Signs, Marks, Orades: 'Writing' in Lyela Fox Divination (Burkina Faso). 271. Ron Eglash An Ethnocomputing Comparison of African and Native American Divination Systems. 295. Patricia Lamarche-de Largentaye The Friction Orade from the Congo Basin. 313. Wim van Binsbergen African Divination across Time and Space: Typology and Intercultural Epistemology. 339. Profile of authors. 376. Index. 381.

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