A concrete psychological investigation of ifá divination/ una investigación psicológica concreta de la adivinación de ifá/ uma pesquisa psicológica concreta da adivinhação de ifá

Divination -the consultation of an oracle in order to determine a course for future action- has long been considered a practice characteristic of "primitive mentality." We describe research with the babalawo of Santería, who are expert in the divinatory system of Ifá. Our first goal is to...