Divination as a Way of Knowing

Embodiment, Visualisation, Narrative, and Interpretation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8934828
AutoresBarbara Tedlock (autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume112
Fascículo2
Páginas189-197
Data de publicação2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFolklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00155870120082236
OpenAlexW2061844736
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas14

Divination, which is a way of exploring the unknown, has been practised worldwide for millennia. It involves complementary modes of cognition associated with representational and presentational symbolism. Wherever a theory of divination has been carefully elicited from practitioners of the art, there is a recognition of overlapping inductive, intuitive and interpretative narrative techniques and ways of knowing. In any society in which mechanical divinatory procedures are combined with visualisation or bursts of intuition, researchers should be able to empirically investigate this cognitive-embodied field of practical mastery. This investigation, in turn, ought to enable them to develop meditative empathy towards acts of divination as well as a sophisticated theory of divinatory practice

Aesthetics · Art · Cognition · Cognitive science · Divination · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Intuition · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Study and Philosophy of Religion