{"product_id":"divinations-grasp-african-encounters-with-the-almost-said-hardback-9780253018816","title":"Divination's Grasp; African Encounters with the Almost Said (Hardback) 9780253018816","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDivination's Grasp\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrican Encounters with the Almost Said\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Werbner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253018816\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w illus., 3 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Werbner's \u003ci\u003eDivination's Grasp\u003c\/i\u003e documents a long and distinguished career in the service of anthropology. It will be a touchstone for anthropological studies of divination for years to come.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Richard Werbner's superb account of moral imagination and the poetics of divination grasps the density of its subject, matching the insights of the diviner with those of the ethnographer. The book takes its place among the very best works of Africanist anthropology as a new classic in the tradition of ethnographic divination and a necessary reminder of live and deep traditions of African wisdom.\"—Michael Lambek, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto Scarborough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Richard Werbner has produced a work of rare depth and profound insight that is destined to become a classic in African Studies and the anthropology of religion. In Divinations' Grasp, we come to know Werbner's divinatory mentors, men of profound intelligence who are masters of the poetically contoured 'almost said.' Readers will feel the comfort and inspiration that comes from an encounter with mastery, deep dialogue, and longstanding witness of Tswapong divining séances.\"—Paul Stoller, author of Yaya's Story: The Quest for Well-Being in the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner's skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Socio-linguistics and poetics\u003cbr\u003e 1. Deep Dialogue with Evans-Pritchard\u003cbr\u003e 2. In Praise of the Moral Imagination \u003cbr\u003e 3. Acrobatic Stylistics, Agonistic Vision\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From Tablet Archive to Wisdom Séances\u003cbr\u003e 4. Poetics and Archives\u003cbr\u003e 5. Family Séances: Rhetoric, Deliberations and Decisions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Cosmic and Personal Understandings: Diviners, Headmen, Strangers\u003cbr\u003e Part III. From Hooved Archive to Charismatic Séances\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Charismatic Diviner's Archive: Hooved Divination \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Cross-Over: Originality, Hybridity and Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Charismatic Séance: Arguments, Intimacy and Intimations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: In Comparison\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523959517464,"sku":"9780253018816","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/divinations-grasp-african-encounters-with-the-almost-said-hardback-9780253018816","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}