![]() ![]() ![]() are all seminal and distinguished."❺merican Anthropologist. Victor tells Jade about the man who had the book and drew the symbols. "A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. Topics include medicine, witchcraft, morality, social structure, rites of passage, color classification, and the role of symbols in so many aspects of tribal life. These essays go far beyond meticulous recording of Zambian ritual to examine the role of symbols in social processes. ![]() Victor Turner, a professor at Cornell, was known for his work in both anthropology and the behavioral sciences. It provides one of the few postwar studies sure to rank as an ethnographic classic."❺frica. Using data of extraordinary richness, it presents some of the most provocative and suggestive theories recently advanced in the study of ritual behavior and symbolism. "This is a collection of ten essays dealing with various aspects of symbolism and ritual among the Ndembu of Zambia in central Africa. Second Printing, Cornell paperbacks 1981. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Symbolizes breast milk and mother’s breast as pole of sensory meaning, but also symbolizes motherhood at ideological pole of meaning. Book Condition: Very Good with slight tropical speckling to Page Edges, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. Turner (1967) reports Marwick (1952) via Douglas (1963): When Cewa social relations become intolerably strained, witch beliefs help to dissolve relations. ![]()
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