The Maurer Collection
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Description: Collection of artifacts used in rites of divination in Central and West Africa. Extensively illustrated with scholarly text.
Divination rituals vary greatly from one culture to another; but they are practiced throught the world- in the United States and Europe, as well as by the peoples of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Participants in such rituals are concerned with a gain in knowledge, insight into the dilemmas that vex human experience. Divination is not a type of prophecy or soothsaying. To be sure, it is concerned with the future, but only as the future is shaped by past events, present circumstances, and by known and unknown powers. Rituals of divination focus upon the present, addressing human suffering and the quest for meaning: illness, the untimely death of a person, failure of crops, loss in the market place, discord within a family, or an entire community, with or without the ministrations of a priest.
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| Date | activated: 23-Jan-1990 last updated: 14-Sep-2009 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |