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From crab divination in the Cameroon (front cover) to friction oracles in the Congo Basin, from reading cast objects in Mozambique to spirit possession in Côte d'Ivoire, from Sudanese ebony diviners to South African Xhosa healers (below), divi nation systems throughout Africa serve their communities by resolving problems and answering questions. Divination helps people chart a course in life by a deeper under standing of past and present. This important collection reveals the extraordinary diversity and com plexity of African divination systems, focusing on self-knowledge, social reality, and on intercultural and histo rical relations.

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