Divination (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives for a New Millennium
Redaktion: Curry, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317149026
• Artikelnr.: 45096386

Autorenporträt

Patrick Curry holds an honorary research fellowship in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales at Lampeter. He taught an MA in Cultural Cosmology and Divination at the University of Kent, and is co-author , with Roy Willis, of Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon (Oxford: Berg, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
PatrickCurry; Chapter 2 Theorizing Divinatory Acts
BarbaraTedlock; Chapter 3 'Twinning' and 'Perfect Knowledge' in African Systems of Divination
Philip M.Peek; Chapter 4 Memoir as Method
or 'What the Devil Was I up to Anyway?'
Laura S.Grillo; Chapter 5 Central Asian and Northern European Shamanism
JuhaPentikäinen; Chapter 6 The Carbon Footprint of Oracles
Stuart R.Harrop; Chapter 7 Embodiment
Alterity and Agency
PatrickCurry; Chapter 8 Chicane
GeoffreyCornelius; Chapter 9 Darwin's Fortune
Jonah's Shipmates and the Persistence of Chance
EvanHeimlich; Chapter 10 Arrows
Aiming and Divination
Dorian GieselerGreenbaum; Chapter 11 Life between Lives Therapy
AngelaVoss; Chapter 12 Talking and Walking with Spirits
PaulDevereux; Chapter 13 Clarifying Divinatory Dialogue
AnthonyThorley
ChantalAllison
PetraStapp
JohnWadsworth; Chapter 101 Afterword Of Ises and Oughts
MartinHolbraad;