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Divination, oracles & omens
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- Book Synopsis
- The past, present and future are full of tantalizing mysteries: questions about our own and other people's lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand past events. This fascinating book features twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world that have been and are still used to uncover hidden information: from astrology, palmistry, and Tarot to egg divination and Chinese Yijing. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with a wide range of associated objects, such as cards, dice, altars, candles and texts, and even mathematical tools including astrolabes and astronomical tables. While these practices are often seen as light-hearted entertainment, a soothsayer's uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from scepticism to serious engagement. From ancient times to the present day, this spellbinding collection explores our need to appeal to powers beyond the realm of our day-to-day understanding for prediction and clarification, and how the questions we ask can reveal more than the answers we are given.
- About The Author
- MICHELLE PFEFFER is a research fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a historian of early modern science and religion. DAVID ZEITLYN is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and an initiated Mambila gam dù spider diviner
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781851246335
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, (06 December 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 666 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 161 mm
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