Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings—the view of millions of Africans—that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.
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By Edith Turner. With William Blodgett, Singleton Kahona, and Fideli Benwa
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After Vic Turner and I left the field in 1954, a gap of thirty-one years elapsed before I was to see the Ndembu again. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
divinatory proposition, mongoose skin pouch, castor oil leaf, bark lid, cupping horn, shrine pole, greeting tree, leaf medicine, impeded form, pounding pole, duiker antelope, termite tower, medicine quest, afflicting spirit, medicine basket, finger horn, medicine collection, dead hunter, antelope skin, honey beer, human tooth, ritual scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Victor Turner, Mukanza Village, Vic Turner, Meru's Ihamba, Kahona Village, Don Antonio, Shika Village, Discussion of the First Ihamba, Philip Kabwita, Derek Mulandu, Kahona Sambumba, Mulandu Farm, Essie Parrish New!
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After Vic Turner and I left the field in 1954, a gap of thirty-one years elapsed before I was to see the Ndembu again. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
divinatory proposition, mongoose skin pouch, castor oil leaf, bark lid, cupping horn, shrine pole, greeting tree, leaf medicine, impeded form, pounding pole, duiker antelope, termite tower, medicine quest, afflicting spirit, medicine basket, finger horn, medicine collection, dead hunter, antelope skin, honey beer, human tooth, ritual scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Victor Turner, Mukanza Village, Vic Turner, Meru's Ihamba, Kahona Village, Don Antonio, Shika Village, Discussion of the First Ihamba, Philip Kabwita, Derek Mulandu, Kahona Sambumba, Mulandu Farm, Essie Parrish New!
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- Healing Practices in the South Pacific by C. D. F. Parsons in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- African Studies by H.P. Turner in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography) by John Beattie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage (Msh) by Jeanne Favret-Saada on page 160, and Back Matter
- Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library) by Elenore Smith Bowen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Healing Songs by Ted Gioia in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ritual and Religious Belief: A Reader (Critical Categories in the Study of Religion) by Graham Harvey in Front Matter, and page 188
- Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community by Kathryn Linn Geurts in Back Matter
- Body, Movement, and Culture: Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community (Mighty Chronicles) by Sally Ann Ness in Back Matter
- Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (Contemporary Ethnography) by Camille Bacon-Smith in Front Matter
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