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John Pemberton III
Ingo Lambrecht
Yvonne Winters
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Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa
by John Pemberton III
Crosby Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Amherst College

A survey on divination in five regional African traditions, from the exhibition catalogue.

   
 
 

Cultural Artifacts and the Oracular Trance States of the Sangoma in South Africa
by Ingo Lambrecht
Apprentice diviner and graduate student at the Witwatersrand University, South Africa

A discussion of the practice of contemporary Tsonga diviner Daniel Baloyi in Soweto.

   


Depicting the Servants of the Spirits
by Yvonne Winters
Staff museologist at the University of Natal, Durban

An analysis of 1940s and 1950s artworks depicting Zulu diviners, in the Campbell Collections, University of Natal, Durban.

   

Initiation of a Pondo Diviner (Igqira)
by Anitra Nettleton
Professor of Art History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

A detailed account of a young Pondo woman's initiation as a diviner in the 1930s.

   
     

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