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The Xhosa diviner: Ways of understanding
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 43, No 5 | a1184 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v43i5.1184
| © 1978 D. Kruger
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 05 February 1978 | Published: 05 February 1978
Submitted: 05 February 1978 | Published: 05 February 1978
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D. Kruger,, South AfricaFull Text:
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It is my aim in this paper to show that although a natural scientific oriented mode of trying to explain what is being done by the Xhosa diviner, has some usefulness, it also has severe limits and should not be the approach of choice for understanding the phenomena which revolve around his work.
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