MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010014655
003 DLC
005 20151215081521.0
008 100409s2010 vtua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010014655
020 $a9781409405559 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBF1751$b.D62 2010
082 00 $a133.3$222
245 00 $aDivination :$bperspectives for a new millenium /$cedited by Patrick Curry.
260 $aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2010.
300 $axiii, 289 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTheorizing 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.
650 0 $aDivination.
700 1 $aCurry, Patrick,$d1951-