Listening Ebony Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power among the Uduk of Sudan

Name: Listening Ebony Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power among the Uduk of Sudan
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ISBN: 9780198234166

ISBN-10: 0198234163

ISBN-13: 9780198234166

Edition: 1999

Authors: Wendy James

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Notions of the person and of the foundations of bodily and moral experience lie at the heart of this second ethnographic volume devoted to the Uduk-speaking people of Sudan. The first part discusses enduring elements of personal knowledge in the context of a hunters' worldview. The second part gives an account of how alien religious discourse has confronted the Uduk in the course of the region's political history. The third section tells the story of the contemporaneous rise of a new diviners' movement, in part an antithetical response drawing upon the older cultural strata. The key act of the diviners is oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood: through the ebony, personal healing…

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/9/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.31" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Notes on Texts


Note on Rites


Note on Terminology


Introductory Essay



The Archive of a Hunting People



The Forest and the Animals



Persons


Postscript to Part I: On Moral Knowledge



The Claims of High Theology



The Nilotic Prophets and 'Arum i Mis': Remembering Leina



The Sudan Interior Mission and 'Arumgimis': Expecting Christ


Postscript to Part II: Living with Islam



The Ebony Speaks



Becoming Ebony Men



Kindling the Ebony: Divination, Diagnosis, and Treatment


Epilogue



Koman parallels, the archive and the pre-Nilotic context



Further Uduk tales



Ritual practitioners in Northern Pam'Be, 1966


Glossary


Select Bibliography


Index