줄루 점술(ukubhula ngathambo)에 나타난 인식 = Epistemology on Zulu divination(ukubhula ngathambo)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Evans-Pritchard, on his witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande(1937) analyses that Azande untilise a poison oracle as a decision-making procedure in everday life. Evans-Pritchard stresses that Azande poison oracle reveals the essence of Zande epistemology.
A posion oracle, according to Evans-Pritchard, is a supreme mean of According to him, Azande are intelligent enough to explain away social phenomena within a certain condition: mysticism. But out of this, Azande are ignorant. So much embedded in this mystical belief, they are "lack of awareness of alternative" (Horton, R., 1967:156).
Since Evans-Pritchard's analysis on Azande poison oracle, African thought systems are widely understood in therms of a closed mode in which mystical elements determine social lives.
The article challenges this classical understanding on African mode of thoughts. Prsenting one case of Zulu divination, called ukubhula ngathambo, I try to show that divination does not have compelling powers over an individual. A Zulu does not blindy follow whatever divination tells him, although divination is the epitome of their cosmological order. Perhaps ukubhula ngathambo, like the poison oracle of Azande, has supernatural or more correctly moral influence over the Zulu society. Nevertheless, the final decision making is always the share of an individual who tries to judge his environments and decide in rational way.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가는 글
• Ⅱ. 아프리카 점술과 인식론적 특성
• Ⅲ. 끄와응그와나세의 세계관과 점술
• 1. 끄와응그와나세의 세계관
• 2. 우구불라 응가탐보(ukubhula ngathambo)
• 3. 사례: 조상의 분열이 가져온 고통
• Ⅳ. 점술의 해석과 실천
• Ⅴ. 결론