The Listening Ebony

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.