African Divination, Volume 4 - Southern Africa

• Explore eight distinct divination systems — Discover the rich diversity of Southern African divination through strangers, tablets, baskets, bones, wisdom traditions, environmental omens, and other documented sacred technologies.

• Go beyond ethnicity to understand the systems themselves — Learn how related divination traditions have traveled across communities and cultural boundaries, while preserving their distinctive methods, practitioners, symbolism, and worldviews.

• Discover how divination becomes a way of knowing — Explore how Southern African practitioners have used divination to investigate illness, misfortune, relationships, spiritual disturbance, hidden causes, and life’s uncertainties—and discover the deeper philosophies behind these practices.

African Divination: Southern Africa takes you into eight distinct divination traditions preserved among the peoples of Southern Africa. Rather than organizing these traditions simply by ethnicity, this beautifully illustrated volume examines the divination systems themselves—revealing how practitioners use bones, tablets, baskets, spirits, specialized knowledge, poetry, environmental signs, and sacred objects to seek understanding and guidance. Explore documented traditions, the worldviews that give them meaning, and the enduring wisdom of Southern Africa’s living divinatory heritage.

65 illustrated pages.