Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers

by David Zeitlyn

Book Overview

This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked and life histories to help understand the perspective of the clients rather than that of the diviners.

Drawing on a corpus of more than 600 cases, David Zeitlyn reconsiders theories of divination and compares...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032174080
• ISBN13: 9781032174082
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"