The way types of divination move round the planet means it is not helpful to simply attribute one unitary ontology specific techniques or groups practitioners. Explaining in terms ‘ontology’ homogenizes cognitive and conceptual multiplicity, pre-empts possible outcomes divination. Moreover, this contradicts fundamentally open nature divination, fact that many forms reformulation questions helps...

Abstract For more than 40 years the relationships that exist between divination and knowledge have become central to anthropology’s understanding of African religious practice. This paper deemphasizes commonly mobilized ‘divination as knowledge’ trope in favor highlighting its role achieving well-being. Indeed, I argue by focusing on a way knowing ethnographers inadvertently ignored what happen...