#Book by : The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Cornell Paperbacks)
A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. &8213American AnthropologistA pioneering work of high quality, this collection of anthropological studies provides one of the most detailed records available for an African society&8212orindeed for any group&8212ofthe semantics of ritual symbolism. It combines unusually detailed ethnographic description, based upon field work among the Ndembu of Zambia, with remarkable theoretical sophistication. Professor Turner describes the ritual phenomena in terms both of practice and of their sociological and psychological implications within a preliterate society.Case