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The Reception of Bantu Divination in Modern South Africa: African Traditional Worldview in Interaction with European Thought

Religions
Bantu African divination is firmly established in South Africa in the context of modernity and is protected, endorsed and regulated by law. It is received in the therapeutic field.
Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel
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Divining Integrative Medicine

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2007
Medicine, like scientific inquiry, is necessarily dynamic. As our understanding of health and disease continues to grow, medicine as we know it will change. Alternative therapies and perspectives that are coming to light will be illuminated by modern methods of inquiry applied to pre-modern healing systems.
Stumpf, Steven H., Shapiro, Simon J., Hardy, Mary L.   +2 more
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‘The Jade Box Writings Newly Translated for Various Occasions’: a Fragment of One Mongolian Translation from the Aldan Maadyr National Museum of the Tyva Republic Revisited

Монголоведение, 2019
Goals. The article seeks to introduce into scientific discourse a Mongolianlanguage text dealing with divination and astrological practices, and housed by the National Museum of the Tyva Republic (М-653). Materials.
Bembya L. Mitruev
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Specialist knowledge practices of craftsmen and clerics in Senegal [PDF]

, 2009
Special Issue: Knowledge in Practice: Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge. Guest Editor: Kai Kresse and Trevor H. J. MarchandThis article examines the specialized knowledge practices of two sets of culturally recognized ‘experts’ in Senegal ...
Dilley, Roy Martin
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
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Interface as Inverted Divination: The Modes of Yijing, L. Tolstoy and J. Cage

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
An interface is like a crossroad in a person’s thinking, it’s cross-section at the point where a certain level of tension accumulates. Such crossroads are usually perfectly realized by the subject, and it is precisely this kind of situation that leads ...
Konstantin V. Azarov
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Nostradamus et la poésie-fiction

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2000
L’article revient sur une poignée de quatrains extraits des Centuries de Nostradamus pour montrer comment la variété parfois délirante des interprétations qui leur ont été appliquées provient régulièrement d’une méconnaissance de la langue du xvie siècle
Yvonne Bellenger
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Hidden Spoor, Ruan Xiaoxu, And His Treatise On Reclusion [PDF]

, 1991
In early medieval China great attention was paid to compiling accounts of men in reclusion, yet the prefaces to these compilations often contain only vague or stale reasoning concerning the nature of reclusion itself. A preface by Shen Yue (441-513) is a
Berkowitz, Alan
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The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
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Book Review: Some Comments on David Zeitlyn’s Mambila Spider Divination

Arụmarụka
Although I am neither a social anthropologist like Zeitlyn nor a sociolinguist, I am fascinated by Zeitlyn’s analysis of Mambila spider divination from a metaphysical and (African) philosophy of religion perspective. I have undertaken fieldwork, studied,
Emmanuel OFUASIA
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