Divination
Divination perspectives for a new millennium / [electronic resource] :
edited by Patrick Curry.
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 289 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing divinatory acts: the integrative discourse of dream oracles / Barbara Tedlock -- "Twinning" and "perfect knowledge" in African systems of divination / Philip Peek -- Memoir as method or "what the devil was I up to anyway?" / Laura Grillo -- Central Asian and northern European Shamanism / Juha Pentikainen -- The carbon footprint of oracles: how green is divination? / Stuart Harrop -- Embodiment, alterity, and agency in divination: resolving antinomies / Patrick Curry -- Chicane: double-thinking and divination amongst the witch-doctors / Geoffrey Cornelius -- Darwin's fortune, Jonah's shipmates, and the persistence of chance / Evan Heimlich -- Arrows, aiming, and divination: astrology as a stochastic art / Dorian Greenbaum -- The descent of Orpheus and life between lives dialogue: divination, initiation or therapy? / Angela Voss -- Talking and walking with spirits: fresh perspectives on a medieval necromantic system / Paul Devereux -- Clarifying divinatory dialogue: a proposal for a distinction between practitioner divination and essential divination / Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp and John Wadsworth -- Afterword / Martin Holbraad.
9781409405566 (electronic bk.) 1409405567 (electronic bk.)
Divination.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / Fortune Telling
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / General
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Prophecy
Electronic books.
BF1751 / .D62 2010eb
133.3
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing divinatory acts: the integrative discourse of dream oracles / Barbara Tedlock -- "Twinning" and "perfect knowledge" in African systems of divination / Philip Peek -- Memoir as method or "what the devil was I up to anyway?" / Laura Grillo -- Central Asian and northern European Shamanism / Juha Pentikainen -- The carbon footprint of oracles: how green is divination? / Stuart Harrop -- Embodiment, alterity, and agency in divination: resolving antinomies / Patrick Curry -- Chicane: double-thinking and divination amongst the witch-doctors / Geoffrey Cornelius -- Darwin's fortune, Jonah's shipmates, and the persistence of chance / Evan Heimlich -- Arrows, aiming, and divination: astrology as a stochastic art / Dorian Greenbaum -- The descent of Orpheus and life between lives dialogue: divination, initiation or therapy? / Angela Voss -- Talking and walking with spirits: fresh perspectives on a medieval necromantic system / Paul Devereux -- Clarifying divinatory dialogue: a proposal for a distinction between practitioner divination and essential divination / Anthony Thorley, Chantal Allison, Petra Stapp and John Wadsworth -- Afterword / Martin Holbraad.
9781409405566 (electronic bk.) 1409405567 (electronic bk.)
Divination.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / Fortune Telling
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / General
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Prophecy
Electronic books.
BF1751 / .D62 2010eb
133.3
