Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World
ISBN: 9780253013675
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Yorubas -- Religion; Divination -- Nigeria; Blacks -- Latin America -- Religion; Cowries;

" . . . a landmark in research of African oral traditions." --African Arts

" . . . a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art." --Journal of Religion in Africa

Yoruba texts and English translations of a divination system that originated in Nigeria and is widely practiced today by male and female diviners in the diaspora. A landmark edition.

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