Divination

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.

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;