Divination Perspectives for a New Millennium 1st Edition by Patrick Curry ISBN 9781409405559 1409405559
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ISBN 10: 1409405559
ISBN 13: 9781409405559
Author: Patrick Curry
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.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction – Patrick Curry
Chapter 2 Theorizing Divinatory Acts – Barbara Tedlock
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 – Juha Pentikäinen
Chapter 6 The Carbon Footprint of Oracles – Stuart R. Harrop
Chapter 7 Embodiment, Alterity and Agency – Patrick Curry
Chapter 8 Chicane – Geoffrey Cornelius
Chapter 9 Darwin’s Fortune, Jonah’s Shipmates and the Persistence of Chance – Evan Heimlich
Chapter 10 Arrows, Aiming and Divination – Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Chapter 11 Life between Lives Therapy – Angela Voss
Chapter 12 Talking and Walking with Spirits – Paul Devereux
Chapter 13 Clarifying Divinatory Dialogue – Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp, John Wadsworth
Chapter 101 Afterword: Of Ises and Oughts – Martin Holbraad
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