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Book Series: Classica Digitalia: Humanitas Supplementum - Estudos Monográficos ISBN: 9789892616391 Year: 2019 Pages: 222 DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1640-7 Language: Plutarch, figures of wise men, figures of philosophers
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The texts gathered here invite usto approach the work of Plutarch according to thechosen prism: they portray different “figures” accordingto six sections, whichare obviously not without some relations with each other, but whichalso strive when possible todistinguish between“wise” and “philosopher”: wisdom and types ofSages; “mythical” figures; the Sage and the politician; figures of philosophers; exemplary figures “in context”; representations and new readings.
Book Series: Outros Títulos ISBN: 9789892619071 Year: 2019 Pages: 830 DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1908-8 Language: Divinatory symbols, socio-cultural analysis, divination technique of the Cokwe of Angola
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This study of the Cokwe divinatory basket is an original research from various points of view, and is the result of constant work that runs from 1971 to 1978. Alternating museum and bibliographic research with fieldwork, the author was able to obtain a minimum of information on each of the many symbols manipulated by the cokwe soothsayer. Moreover, and this being a necessary complement, we have enlightened the ritual context of this practice which stems from a special initiation, which is not the case for other less elaborate techniques. [...] [Coimbra, the 25 September 1978]
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