Divination and Healing : Potent Vision

Preface vii Introduction: Divination and Healing Processes 3(26) Michael Winkelman Philip M. Peek I. Epistemologies and Cosmologies In Search of the Real: The Healing Contingency of Sukuma Divination 29(26) Koen Stroeken Drumming, Divination, and Healing: The Community at Work 55(26) Edith Turner Calendrical Divination by the Ixil Maya of Guatemala 81(22) Benjamin N. Colby Owner of the Day and Regulator of the Universe: Ifa Divination and Healing among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria 103(18) Jacob K. Olupona II. Varieties of Divinatory Experiences Divination in North American Indian Shamanic Healing 121(18) William S. Lyon Ways of Knowing and Healing: Shamanism in the Republics of Tuva and Buryatia in Post-Soviet Russia 139(28) Eva Jane Neumann Fridman Divination in Multireligious Southeast Asia: The Case of Thailand 167(16) Ruth-Inge Heinze III. Divination and Healing Healing through the Spirits: Divination and Healing among the Jaunsaris of Uttrakhand, India 183(24) Krishnakali Majumdar The Laibon Diviner and Healer among Samburu Pastoralists of Kenya 207(20) Elliot Fratkin The Ngawbe All-Night Home-Based Vigil: Diviner-Mediated Intrafamilial Healing 227(16) Keith Bletzer Yaka Divination: Acting Out the Memory of Society's Life-Spring 243(22) Rene Devisch References 265(16) Index 281(8) About the Contributors 289