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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Turner, Edith,
• TeilnehmendeR: Benwa, Fideli; Blodgett, William; Kahona, Singleton
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 27 illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812203981; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812203981
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edith Turner.

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.