Experiencing Ritual : : A New Interpretation of African Healing / / 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 pow...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 27 illus.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Content --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. The Field Context of the Ihamba Rituals in 198s --   |t 2. The Medicine Quest for the First Ihamba --   |t 3. The First Ihamba: The Performance for Nyakanjata --   |t 4. Discussion of the First Ihamba --   |t 5. Background to the Second Ihamba --   |t 6. The Second Ihamba: The Performance for Meru --   |t 7. Ritual and the Anthropology of Experience --   |t 8. Seeing Spirits --   |t Coda --   |t Appendix 1. African Spirit Healing and Ihamba --   |t Appendix 2. Types of Spirit Healen --   |t Appendix 3. Medicines and Hallucinogens --   |t Appendix 4. Cupping with Horns --   |t Appendix 5. Music and Drumming --   |t Appendix 6. The Extraction of Harmful Intrusions --   |t Appendix 7. A Composite Ihamba Scenario --   |t Appendix 8. Old and New Ihamba Compared --   |t Appendix 9. Matriliny, Rituals, and Religions: The 1985 Ndembu --   |t Appendix 10. Maps --   |t Appendix 11. Abridged Genealogy of the Kahona Family --   |t Notes --   |t References --   |t Index --   |t Backmatter  
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650 0 |a Ndembu (African people)  |x Medicine. 
650 0 |a Ndembu (African people)  |x Religion. 
650 0 |a Ndembu (African people)  |x Rites and ceremonies. 
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700 1 |a Kahona, Singleton 
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