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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	DT3058.L89 S45 2011		AVAILABLE

Author	Silva, S�nia.
Title	Along an African border : Angolan refugees and their divination baskets / S�nia Silva.
OCLC	606785118
ISBN	9780812242935 (alk. paper)
	0812242939 (alk. paper)
Publisher	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Description	172 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	Luvale (African people) -- Zambia -- Chavuma District -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Divination -- Zambia -- Chavuma District.
	Baskets -- Zambia -- Chavuma District -- Religious aspects.
	Fetishes (Ceremonial objects) -- Zambia -- Chavuma District.
	Chavuma District (Zambia) -- Social life and customs.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-163) and index.
Summary	The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as jipelo. For the Luvale and related peoples, the lipele is more than a container of souvenirs; it is a tool, a source of crucial information from the ancestral past and advice for the future.
	In Along an African Border, anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how Angolan refugees living in Zambia use these divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. Silva documents the lab special processes involved in weaving the baskets and transforming them into oracles. She speaks with diviners who make their living interpreting lipele messages and with their knowledge-seeking clients. To the Luvale, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of jipelo articles drawn in configurations, interact with persons and other objects, punish wrongdoers, assist people in need, and, much like humans, go through a life course that is marked with an initiation ceremony and a special burial. The lipele functions in a state between object and person. Notably absent from lipele divination is any discussion or representation in the form of symbolic objects of the violence in Angola or the Luvale's relocation struggles�instead, the consultation focuses on age-old personal issues of illness, reproduction, and death. As Silva demonstrates in this sophisticated and richly illustrated ethnography, lipele help people maintain their links to kin and tradition in a world of transience and uncertainty. --Book Jacket.

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ISBN	9780812242935 (alk. paper)
	0812242939 (alk. paper)
Author	Silva, S�nia.
Title	Along an African border : Angolan refugees and their divination baskets / S�nia Silva.
Publisher	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Title

Along an African border : Angolan refugees and their divination baskets / S�nia Silva.

Author

Silva, S�nia.

ISBN	9780812242935 (alk. paper)
	0812242939 (alk. paper)

Description

172 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

OCLC

606785118

Publisher

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-163) and index.
Summary	The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as jipelo. For the Luvale and related peoples, the lipele is more than a container of souvenirs; it is a tool, a source of crucial information from the ancestral past and advice for the future.
	In Along an African Border, anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how Angolan refugees living in Zambia use these divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. Silva documents the lab special processes involved in weaving the baskets and transforming them into oracles. She speaks with diviners who make their living interpreting lipele messages and with their knowledge-seeking clients. To the Luvale, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of jipelo articles drawn in configurations, interact with persons and other objects, punish wrongdoers, assist people in need, and, much like humans, go through a life course that is marked with an initiation ceremony and a special burial. The lipele functions in a state between object and person. Notably absent from lipele divination is any discussion or representation in the form of symbolic objects of the violence in Angola or the Luvale's relocation struggles�instead, the consultation focuses on age-old personal issues of illness, reproduction, and death. As Silva demonstrates in this sophisticated and richly illustrated ethnography, lipele help people maintain their links to kin and tradition in a world of transience and uncertainty. --Book Jacket.

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