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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Fortune-tellers"”.
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Touching hands, touching lives : pathways to fortune telling and social work services : parallels and divergences
… the propelling forces that lead persons to use fortune telling and social work services. The authors sought to draw parallels and divergences between both client groups in an attempt to examine pathways for making social work services more accessible to persons who find fortune telling appealing …
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Gypsy fortune-telling in Houston: the study of a profession
… Texas, and focuses upon the profession of fortune -telling. A review of the literature on the Gypsy in twentieth-century America is undertaken, and this information is related to contemporary Gypsy life in Harris County. Approximately forty-five sedentary Gypsy families reside in Harris …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
… the workplaces, homes and social networks of fortune-tellers and clients; collected life histories; and conducted semi-structured interviews with research interlocutors on their religious practices and life concerns. Examining the experiences of mobility of fortune-tellers and their clients, …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
… the workplaces, homes and social networks of fortune-tellers and clients; collected life histories; and conducted semi-structured interviews with research interlocutors on their religious practices and life concerns. Examining the experiences of mobility of fortune-tellers and their clients, …
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Propheteering : a cultural history of prediction in the Gilded Age
… on the work of utopian novelist Edward Bellamy, fortune-tellers, and spirit mediums, whose prophecies circulated by the thousands through rural and urban America.
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… dial psychic hotlines, and visit psychics, fortune-tellers, numerologists, astrologists, tarot card readers, and energy healers. Despite the popularity of such practices, this booming performance-based industry aimed at entertainment and self-improvement has yet to be analysed in any depth …
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Practising-as-inquiry: developing self-as-practitioner
… iPhone videos, iterative writing, origami fortune-tellers, photographs, reflective practice, relational supervision, self-dialogue, storytelling – were immediately to hand for the improvisation of my experiments in the moment, as well as in the qualitative research methods – …