Suchergebnisse

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

[Book contents:] Holy hustling -- Between the prophetic and the pastoral -- The lives of prophets and bishops -- Escalating crisis : faith and trust "under destruction" -- Schism, innovation, and continuity -- Personal nearness and sincerity in prayer -- Diagnosis, reconnaissance, and fabrication -- Prescribing Christian cosmetics : moving bodies and intercorporeality -- Old and new in Chrisitian reformation -- From film to book--dianoia and noesis

Anthropological studies of divination have given much attention to decision making at seances and the allocation of blame for specific complaints or misfortunes. Less attention has been paid to the various courses of communication which people pursue at distinct kinds of seance. This article analyzes the use which Kalanga of Botswana make of stylized rhetoric in one kind of seance, the domestic seances where all the congregation are kin or neighbors and they divine at home.

Introduction : Living Law, Public Ethics and Legal Pluralism -- Looking Back: Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law in a Tswapong Village -- Tlholego : Nature, Culture and Destiny -- The Oracular Court of Sedimo vs. the Customary Court -- An Unburied Past : Chiefly Succession and the Politics of Memory -- What's in a Name? The Struggle for Identity in Statutory Courts -- Divorce as Process, Botswana Style : Customary Courts and Gender Activism -- Adultery as Process, Botswana Style : Gender and Changing Customary Law -- Inheritance as Turmoil : From Citizens' Forum to Magisterial Justice -- A Case of Insult : Emotions, Law and Witchcraft Accusations -- A Moral Economy of Crime and the Proportionality of Punishment -- Conclusion : Customary Law as Living Law, Legal Pluralism and Public Ethics.