Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft(English, Paperback, Hallen Barry)

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Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft(English, Paperback, Hallen Barry) is written by Hallen Barry and published by Stanford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0804728232 (ISBN 10) and 9780804728232 (ISBN 13).

First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture.