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The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power among the Uduk of Sudan
The Listening Ebony Moral Knowledge Religion and Power among the Uduk of Sudan Author:Wendy James 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 cours... more »e of the region's political history, and the rise of a new diviners' movement based upon the oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood.« less