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Title: | Etiology and Divination among the Sisala of Northern Ghana |
Author: | Mendonsa, Eugene L. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 33-50 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | divination Sisala Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1581082 |
Abstract: | After a description of the Sisala environment and society, the author examines their etiology and divination in the following sections: the form of divination - the divinatory process - the emic model of the divinatory process - a cognitive theory of divination. Conclusion: divination continues to exist and play a functional role in the society because failures are rarely perceived, and when they are, they do not threaten the institution of divination since the belief system contains a logic which blocks and channels thought. Fig., notes. |