Overview
Sociolinguistics and poetics -- Deep dialogue with Evans-Pritchard -- In praise of the moral imagination -- Acrobatic stylistics, agonistic vision -- From tablet archive to wisdom seances -- Poetics and archives -- Family seances : rhetoric, deliberations, and decisions -- Cosmic and personal understandings : diviners, headmen, strangers -- From hooved archive to charismatic seances -- A charismatic diviner's archive : hooved divination -- The cross-over: originality, hybridity, and metamorphosis -- The charismatic seance : arguments, intimacy, and intimations -- Conclusion: in comparison
- | Author: Richard P. Werbner
- | Publisher: Indiana University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 346 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0253018811
- | ISBN-13: 9780253018816
