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About the Author
Patrick Curry holds an honorary research fellowship in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales at Lampeter. He taught an MA in Cultural Cosmology and Divination at the University of Kent, and is co-author , with Roy Willis, of Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon (Oxford: Berg, 2004).
Reviews
'The book is unique in academia in that, next to putting forward a strong and currently revitalising case of cultural diversity, it provocatively presages for the new millennium a trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary mode of cross-fertilising local knowledge systems and Western-born globalising sciences. Alongside the border-linking beacons set out by Curry's explorative and post-secularist contribution, the fourteen refreshing scholarly essays authoritatively examine many of the epistemological, ontological and ethical questions that the various millennia-old and vital geomantic, necromantic, shamanic or mediumnic divination practices from across the world put to the human sciences and their modernist world view.' Rene Devisch, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 'This book adds several more ethnographic accounts of divination that add to our knowledge of such practices outside the Western worldview.' Time and Mind
Book Information
ISBN 9781138268210
Author Patrick Curry
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g