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Divination, Oracles & Omens

by Michelle Aroney
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781851246335
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bodleian Library
  • Publisher Imprint: Bodleian Library
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 680 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social and Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General

A spellbinding collection of twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world.

In Divination, Oracles & Omens, Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn explore our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification.

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 skepticism 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.

Aroney, Michelle: - Michelle Aroney is a research fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a historian of early modern science and religion.

Zeitlyn, David: - David Zeitlyn is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oxford and an initiated Mambila ŋgam dù spider diviner.

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