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Experiencing Ritual : A New Interpretation of African Healing / Edith Turner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary EthnographyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 27 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812213669
  • 9780812203981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299/.6839 20
LOC classification:
  • DT3058.N44 T87 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Field Context of the Ihamba Rituals in 198s -- 2. The Medicine Quest for the First Ihamba -- 3. The First Ihamba: The Performance for Nyakanjata -- 4. Discussion of the First Ihamba -- 5. Background to the Second Ihamba -- 6. The Second Ihamba: The Performance for Meru -- 7. Ritual and the Anthropology of Experience -- 8. Seeing Spirits -- Coda -- Appendix 1. African Spirit Healing and Ihamba -- Appendix 2. Types of Spirit Healen -- Appendix 3. Medicines and Hallucinogens -- Appendix 4. Cupping with Horns -- Appendix 5. Music and Drumming -- Appendix 6. The Extraction of Harmful Intrusions -- Appendix 7. A Composite Ihamba Scenario -- Appendix 8. Old and New Ihamba Compared -- Appendix 9. Matriliny, Rituals, and Religions: The 1985 Ndembu -- Appendix 10. Maps -- Appendix 11. Abridged Genealogy of the Kahona Family -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Field Context of the Ihamba Rituals in 198s -- 2. The Medicine Quest for the First Ihamba -- 3. The First Ihamba: The Performance for Nyakanjata -- 4. Discussion of the First Ihamba -- 5. Background to the Second Ihamba -- 6. The Second Ihamba: The Performance for Meru -- 7. Ritual and the Anthropology of Experience -- 8. Seeing Spirits -- Coda -- Appendix 1. African Spirit Healing and Ihamba -- Appendix 2. Types of Spirit Healen -- Appendix 3. Medicines and Hallucinogens -- Appendix 4. Cupping with Horns -- Appendix 5. Music and Drumming -- Appendix 6. The Extraction of Harmful Intrusions -- Appendix 7. A Composite Ihamba Scenario -- Appendix 8. Old and New Ihamba Compared -- Appendix 9. Matriliny, Rituals, and Religions: The 1985 Ndembu -- Appendix 10. Maps -- Appendix 11. Abridged Genealogy of the Kahona Family -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)