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

By Wendy James

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198234163
• ISBN13: 9780198234166
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"