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Tables of Contents for The Listening Ebony
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xxi
Note on Texts
xxiv
Note on Rites
xxv
Note on Terminology
xxv
Introductory Essay
1
1
Moral knowledge and the cultural archive
2
10
Chali and its hinterland: religion and the extension of power
12
15
PART I: THE ARCHIVE OF A HUNTING PEOPLE
The Forest and the Animals
27
41
The primeval dance
31
10
Mastering nature
41
27
Persons
68
91
Human beings: body, experience, and understanding
68
20
Individuals and selves
88
6
Growth and completion of the person
94
28
Death and death rites
122
11
The land of the dead
133
26
On Moral Knowledge
143
16
PART II: THE CLAIMS OF HIGH THEOLOGY
The Nilotic Prophets and `Arum i Mis': Remembering Leina
159
48
Activities of the prophet Leina
162
8
The Leina cult among the Meban today
170
3
The extension of Meban and Nuer influence: authority and religious synthesis in the Yabus valley
173
9
Resistance to Nilotic influence: nothern Uduk transformations of Leina and Arum i Mis
182
19
New appearances
201
6
The Sudan Interior Mission and `Arumgimis': Expecting Christ
207
60
Constructing a Christian community at Chali, 1938--1964
207
19
Rewriting the world: the Bible as authoritative text
226
15
Christianity spreads to the periphery, 1964--1983
241
26
Living with Islam
253
14
PART III: THE EBONY SPEAKS
Becoming Ebony Men
267
32
The neri diviner in Bertha history
272
2
The spread of the Ebony Men
274
2
The five branches of the Order
276
3
Accepting the Ebony Men
279
4
Apprenticeship and graduation
283
12
Set dramas
295
4
Kindling the Ebony: Divination, Diagnosis, and Treatment
299
43
Reading the ebony
302
10
Restoring the person: some selected cases
312
12
Interpreting the success of the Ebony Men
324
2
Historical recapitulation: the local power structure counterpointed by the Ebony Men
326
7
The Ebony Men and the cultural archive
333
9
Epilogue
342
28
Appendices
1. Koman parallels, the archive and the pre-Nilotic context
356
7
2. Further Uduk tales
363
4
3. Ritual practitioners in Northern Pam'Be, 1966
367
3
Glossary
370
5
Select Bibliography
375
2
Index
377