The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power Among the Uduk of Sudan

ISBN-13: 9780198234166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 432 str.

Wendy James

Opis

This groundbreaking study explores the notions of person, and the foundations of bodily and moral experience among the Uduk-speaking people of the Sudan-Ethiopian border. James focuses particularly on enduring elements of personal knowledge in the context of a hunter's world-view, how alien religious discourse has affected the Uduk in the course of the region's political history, and the rise of a new diviners' movement based upon the oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood.

Recenzje

Heartache continues, as Sudan's Islamicist government has declared holy war on its own citizens who, like Uduk, are Christian or have retained elements of their own religion ... the engaging chapters of The Listening Ebony concerning Uduk relations to their environment, their notions of personhood, their prophets and "Ebony Diviners", and their interaction with Christianity and Islam will be a benchmark against which readers can gauge the ongoing radical social change Uduk are suffering.