Print version: Werbner, Richard P. Divination’s grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015] xii, 340 pages ; 23 cm ISBN 9780253018816
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.