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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Divination in the Mande world |
Editors: | Jansen, Jan Schmidt, Annette |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Mande Studies |
Volume: | 7 |
Pages: | 174 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | West Africa Gambia Mali Senegal |
Subjects: | divination Bambara Dogon Manding Senufo |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40170226 |
Abstract: | This special issue on divination in the Mande world contains the following contributions: Introduction: divination research as a field of Mande studies, by Jan Jansen and Annette Schmidt; La géomancie dans le contexte bamana: signes et objects forts, by Jean-Paul Colleyn; The logic of shells: knowledge and lifeworld-'poiesis' in Senegambian cowrie divination, by Knut Graw; Ambiguous interventions: on the professionalization of divination practices in urban Mali, by Dorothea E. Schulz; Footprints of the future: Dogon fox divination, by Walter E.A. van Beek; Fortifying futures on blessed foundations: masons, secrets and guarantees in Djenné, by Trevor H.J. Marchand; 'Seul Dieu connaît l'avenir': quelques notes ethnographiques sur la divination en milieu musulman à Djenné (Mali), by Geert Mommersteeg; The paradox of success: marabout women in Dakar, by Amber Gemmeke; Les 'sadobee', intermédiaires entre l'homme et le monde spirituel, by Anja Veirman; Formalized education in sand diviniation: a report from the Mande mountains [Mali], by Jan Jansen. [ASC Leiden abstract] |