WAHRSAGER IN (WEST-) AFRIKA: Ausgewählte Literatur



Bascom, William

1941    The Sanctions of Ifa Divination, JRAI 81 (1941), 2, 43-54.

1969    IFA Divination. Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa. Bloomington, London 1969.


Beattie, J.H.M.

1964    Divination in Bunyoro Uganda, Sociologus 14,1, pp. 44-61.

1966    Consulting a Diviner in Bunyoro: A Text, Ethnology 5 (1966), 2, 202-217.

1967    Consulting a Nyoro Diviner: The Ethnologist as Client, Ethnology 6 (1967), 1, 57-65.

 

Bertaux, C.

La technique des prescriptions sacrificielles dans la géomancie bambara (région de Ségou, Mali), in: Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire, V, le sacrifice, cahier 6, pp.117-130.


Binsbergen, Wim van and Matthew Schoffeleers (Ed.)

1985    Theoretical Exploration in African Religion. London.


Blier, Rudolph

1991    Divination as Alienists and Annunciators among the Batammaliba of Togo. In: Peek, Philip M. (Ed.): African Divination Systems. Ways of Knowing. Bloomington and Indianopolis, pp. 73-90.


Boston, J.S.

1974    Ifa divination in Igala, Africa 44, 350-60.


Cardinall, A.W.

1920    The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, London.


Cartry, M.

1963    Note sur les signes graphiques des géomancien gourmantchè, Journal de la Société des Africanistes 33, 2 (1963), S. 275-307.


Clarke, J.D.

1939    Ifa Divination, JRAI 69, 235-56.


Delobsom, A. Dim

1934    Les secrets des sorciers noirs. Paris. [Sem.: AfW-Rel 68, Kop 251]

1933    Les procédés divinatoires de Baghba (devin) au Mossi, Revue Anthropologique, 43, 182-212.


de Surgy, Albert

1981    Géomancie et le culte d'Afa chez les Evhé, Paris (?).


Devisch, Renaat

1985    Perspectives on Divination in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Wim van Binsbergen und Matthew Schoffeleers: Theoretical Explorations in African Religion, London, Boston, Melbourne und Henley.


Dittmer, Kunz

1958    Die Methoden des Wahrsagens im Ober-Volta-Gebiet und seine Beziehungen zur  Jägerkultur. Baessler-Archiv, N.F., 6, 1, 1-60.


Du Bois, John

1992    Meaning without intention: Lessons from divination. In: Jane H. Hill and Judith T. Irvine: Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Cambridge (University Press), pp. 48-71.


Dupire, Marguerite

1976    Chasse rituelle, divination et reconduction de l'ordre socio-politique chez les Serer du Sine (Sénégal), Homme 16, 1, 5-32.


Evans-Pritchard, E.

1973 Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford.


Förster, Till

 1985    Divination bei den Kafibele-Senufo. Zur Aushandlung und Bewältigung von Alltagskonflikten. Berlin 1985.

1988    Paroles de dévin. Paris.


Fortes, Meyer

1940    Divination among the Tallensi of the Gold Coast, Man 40, p. 12

1949    The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi. London 1949

1987    Divination: religious premisses and logical techniques, in: Religion, morality and the person. Essays on Tallensi religion, ed. J. Goody, pp. 1-21, Cambridge


Glaze, Anita

1981     Art and Death in a Senufo Village, Bloomington.


Goody, Jack

1962    Death, Property and the Ancestors. A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa, Stanford (California).

1967    The Social Organization of the LoWiili. London: Oxford University Press.


Griaule, Marcel

 1965    Le renard pâle. Paris: Institut de l’ethnologie.

 

Grindal, Bruce T.

1983    Into the Heart of Sissala Experience: Witnessing Death Divination. Journal of Anthropological Research 39 (1), 60-80


Haaf, Ernst

1964    Eine Studie über die religiösen Vorstellungen der Kusase, Evangelisches Missions Magazin, 108, 136-158.

1967    Die Kusase. Eine medizinisch-ethnologische Studie über einen Stamm in Nordghana, Stuttgart [besonders S. 32-41]


Hauenstein, A.

1976    Quelques formes de divination parmi les Wobé et les Guéré de Côte d'Ivoire, Anthropos 71, 3-4, 473-507.


Herskovits, Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits

1933    An Outline of Dahomean Religious Belief. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, no 41, Reprint: New York 1976


Holas, B.

1962    Les Toura. Esquisse d'une civilisation montagnarde de Côte d'Ivoire, Paris.


Huber. Hugo

1965    A Diviner's Apprenticeship and Work among the Bayaka, Man 65 (1965), 46-48.


Jackson, Michael

1978    An Approach to Kuranko Divination, Human Relations, 31, 2, 117-138


Jaulin, R.

1968    Calcul et formalisation dans des sciences de l'homme. Paris.


Journal of Religion in Africa 26 (1996), 2: Themenheft “Wahrsager”.


Kirby, Jon P.

1986    God, Shrines, and Problem-solving among the Anufo of Northern Ghana, Berlin.


Kremser, Manfred

1968    Das Sandorakel “CEN” bei den Bambara. Wiener völkerkundliche Mitteilungen, N.F., 5-31.


Kröger, Franz

1992    Schwarze Kreuze und Wahrsageobjekte: tote und lebende Symbole. In: W. Krawietz, L.Pospišil und S. Steinbrich (Hg.): Sprache, Symbole und Symbolverwendungen in Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Religion und Recht. Festschrift für Rüdiger Schott zum 65. Geburtstag. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, S. 93-107


Labouret, Henri

1922    La divination en Afrique Noire, L'Anthropologie, 304ff.

1935    La sorcellerie au Soudan occidental, Africa, 462-478.

1935-36 La divination par les souris à la Côte d'Ivoire, Bull. du Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, no 7, 4-11.


Lienhardt, G.

1961    Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka. Oxford.

 

Maupoil, Bernard

1981    La géomancie à l'ancienne Côte des Esclaves, Paris 1981.

 

Mendonsa, Eugene L.

1973    Divination among the Sisala of Northern Ghana. Ph.D. Thesis, Cambridge University 1973.

1976    Characteristics of Sisala Diviners, in: The Realm of the Extra-Human Agents and Audiences, 179-195

1978    Etiology and Divination among the Sisala of Northern Ghana. Journal of Religion in Africa, 9,1, pp. 33-50.

1982    The Politics of Divination. A Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala of Northern Ghana. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.

2003    Political Economy in a Goatskin Bag: Attempted Symbolic Power Creation in Sisala Divination. In: F. Kröger and Barbara Meier: Ghana’s North. Research on Culture, Religion, and Poliitics of Societies in Transition. Frankfurt u.a. : Peter Lang. pp. 225-241.


Meyer, Piet

1991    Divination among the Lobi of Burkinsa Faso. In: Peek, Philip M. (Ed.): African Divination Systems. Ways of Knowing. Bloomington and Indianopolis, pp. 91-100.


Moore, Omar Khayyam

1957    Divination - a New Perspective, American Anthropologist 59, 69-74.


Morton-Williams, Peter

1966    Two Studies of the Ifa Divination, Africa 36, 4, 406-31.


Myhre, Knut Christian

2006    Divination and experience: explorations of a Chagga epistemology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institue / Man 12, 2, N.S. pp. 313-330.


Nadel, S.F.

1959     Nupe Religion. London 1959. S. 38-67: Divination.


Oppong, Christine

1973    Growing up in Dagbon, Accra-Tema.


Park, George K.

1963    Divination and its Social Contexts, JRAI XCIII, 2, 195-209.


Parrinder, Geoffrey

1949    West African Religion. A study of the Beliefs and Practices of Akan, Ewe, Yoruba, Ibo and Kindred Peoples, London.


Paulme, Denise

1937    La divination par les chacals chez les Dogon de Sanga, Journal de la Société des    Africanistes VII, 1, 1-13.


Peek, Philip M. (Ed.)

1991    African Divination Systems. Ways of Knowing. Bloomington and Indianopolis.


Rattray, Robert S.

1969     The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland, 2 Bde., London, (Nachdruck).

                [pp. 313-317: Nankanse, pp. 356-357: Tallensi]

 

Reynolds, Barrie

1963     Magic, Divination and Witchcraft Among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia, London.


Ritz, Ute

1988    Das Bedeutsame in den Erscheinungen. Divinationspraktiken in den traditionellen Gesell-schaften. Frankfurt und New York.


Schilde, W.

Orakel und Gottesurteile in Afrika, Leipzig 1940.


Schott, Rüdiger

1997    Orakel und Opferkulte bei Völkern der westafrikanischen Savanne. Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Geisteswissenschaften. Vorträge G 348. Opladen.

2000    Wahrsager in Erzählungen der Bulsa. In: Ilony Nagy und Kincsö Verebélyi (eds.): Folklore in 2000. Voces amicorum Guilhelmo Voigt sexagenario. Budapest: Universitas Scientiarum de Rolando Eötvös, pp. 74-85.


Smith, Jonathan Z.

1982    Imagining Religion. From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago and London.


Swanscutt, Katherine

2006    Representational vs conjectural divination: innovating out of nothing in Mongolia.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institue / Man 12, 2, N.S. pp. 331-353.


Tait, David

1952    The role of the diviner in Konkomba Society, Man 52, pp. 167-168.


Tonah, Steve

2006    Diviners, Malams, God, and the Contest for Paramount Chiefship in Mamprugu (Northern Ghana). Anthropos 101, 21-35.


Trost, Franz L.

1986    Bemerkungen zur religiösen Organisation der Tussian (Burkina Faso). In: Festschrift für Annemarie Schweeger-Hefel (S. 104-11: Die Wahrsager. 2.5.1.: Die Einweihung zum Wahrsager).


Turner, Victor

1961    Ndembu Divination, its Symbolism and Techniques, Manchester.

1967    The Forest of Symbols, Ithaca.

1968    The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes Among the Ndembu of Zambia, Oxford.

1975    Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual, London.

1977    Ndembu Divination and Its Symbolism, in: David Landy (ed.): Culture, Disease and Healing. Studies in Medical Anthropology, pp. 175-183, New York + London.


Wagner, J.

1980    Kauri-Orakel, Archiv für Völkerkunde 34, 61-79.


Wyllie, R.W.

1970    Divination and Face-Work, Brit. J. Sociol. 21 (1970), 1, 52-62.


Zuesse, E.M.

Divination and Deity in African Religion, History of Religions (Chicago) 15 (2), 75, 158-182 [UB: ZD 375]


Zwernemann, Jürgen

1964    Divination chez les Kasena en Haute-Volta. Notes Africaines IFAN 102 (1964), 58-61.