Using data from an ethnographic study of tarot divination, occult claims to knowledge are
analyzed and interpreted. Attention is focused on the procedures parties to occult divination …

… scepticism is Cicero's dialogue On Divination, a work in … of divination; the second, in the
mouth of Marcus himself, attacking those arguments and undermining the principles of divinatory …

… all people in all times and places have practised divination as a way of exploring the …
within a specific cultural discourse. Here i am posing a theory of divinatory acts based on the …

… often overlooked discussion of ancient divination from about the same … divination to my
attention.) Chronologically, the next major work on divination was WR Halliday’s Greek Divination …

… discourse: that to clarify a problem is to solve it. We are used to the idea of psychoanalysis
as resting on this assumption. I suggest that the style and narrative theme of divinatory speech …

… importance of divination in many societies. It shows, furthermore, that the divinatory reading
… can help in more fully assessing the range of human discourse and cultural communication. …

To speak of responsibility necessarily brings out, if only indirectly and covertly, our conceptions
of the nature of action and of actor--as weII as of certain. auxiliary notions, which for …

… To begin my work of taking divination seriously and proposing a theory of divinatory practice
… discourse. The anthropologist Roy Willis narrated his experience of this latter divinatory shift…

… possibility of divination. More specifically, we read of Cicero’s alleged denunciation of divination
as … In light of this, Kiernan adds, “the analytical discourse can assume primacy over the …

… is divination, and what does it tell us about Babylonian thinking?The discussion of divination
in … ; they represent a scholarly and speculative discourse of their own. The potential of this …