Art and oracle : African art and rituals of divination /
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New York :
Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams,
©2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Director's Foreword / Philippe de Montebello
- Introduction / Alisa LaGamma
- Map of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Pemberton III
- Catalogue. Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments. Visual Metaphors: Ifa Divination Instruments. Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles. Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs. Invoking the Spirits: Musical Devices. Emblems of Enlightenment and Power: Diviners' Insignias. Empowering the Individual: Diviners' Prescriptions. The Iconography of Divination: Monuments of Divine Insight.