
Book Summary
This groundbreaking study explores the notions of person, and the foundations of bodily and moral experience among the Uduk-speaking people of the Sudan-Ethiopian border. James focuses particularly on enduring elements of personal knowledge in the context of a hunter's world-view, how alien religious discourse has affected the Uduk in the course of the region's political history, and the rise of a new diviners' movement based upon the oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood.
Book Details
Book Name | The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, And Power Among The Uduk Of Sudan |
Author | Wendy James |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, Usa (Mar 2000) |
ISBN | 9780198234166 |
Pages | 432 |
Language | English |
Price | 4326 |