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Experiencing Ritual : A New Interpretation of African Healing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Ethnography SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992Copyright date: ©1992Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812203981
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experiencing RitualLOC classification:
  • DT3058.N44 -- T87 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Two Books on Ihamba: The Effect of Victor Turner's Study -- Theorists of Ritual -- The Groundings of the Present Ethnographic Method -- Chapter I. The Field Context of the lharnba Rituals in 1985 -- Time Factor: History Continues Separately for Ndembu and Turners -- Returning to Mukanza Village -- The Ihamba Tooth -- Chapter 2. The Medicine Quest for the First Ihamba -- Medicine Collection -- Medicine Preparation -- Chapter 3. The First Ihamba: The Performance for Nyakanjata -- The First Tooth -- Commentary -- The Second Tooth -- Chapter 4. Discussion of the First Ihamba -- Sakutoha -- Nyakanjata -- Healing and Hunters -- Mazu ("Words") -- Childbirth Medicines in Iharnba -- The Ambiguities in Iharnba -- The Sequences and Processes Involved in Extraction -- Chapter 5. Background to the Second Iharnba -- The Kawiko Vicinage -- Quarrels in the Past -- The Hunters' Conference: The Significance of the Hunter -- Trouble with Morie -- Chapter 6. The Second Ihamba: The Performance for Meru -- Chapter 7. Ritual and the Anthropology of Experience -- The Event as Fact: Subjectivity and Objectivity -- The Human Tooth -- Chapter 8. Seeing Spirits -- The Difficulties of the Healer Mode -- Coda -- Appendixes -- I. African Spirit Healing and Iharnba -- 2. Types of Spirit Healers -- 3. Medicines and Hallucinogens -- 4. Cupping with Horns -- 5. Music and Drumming -- Drums, N~orna -- Drumming in Ihamba -- Songs -- 6. The Extraction of Harmful Intrusions -- 7. A Composite Ihamba Scenario -- 8. Old and New Ihamba Compared -- 9. Matriliny, Rituals, and Religions: The 1985 Ndcmbu -- 10. Maps -- 11. Abridged Genealou of the Kahona Family -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Two Books on Ihamba: The Effect of Victor Turner's Study -- Theorists of Ritual -- The Groundings of the Present Ethnographic Method -- Chapter I. The Field Context of the lharnba Rituals in 1985 -- Time Factor: History Continues Separately for Ndembu and Turners -- Returning to Mukanza Village -- The Ihamba Tooth -- Chapter 2. The Medicine Quest for the First Ihamba -- Medicine Collection -- Medicine Preparation -- Chapter 3. The First Ihamba: The Performance for Nyakanjata -- The First Tooth -- Commentary -- The Second Tooth -- Chapter 4. Discussion of the First Ihamba -- Sakutoha -- Nyakanjata -- Healing and Hunters -- Mazu ("Words") -- Childbirth Medicines in Iharnba -- The Ambiguities in Iharnba -- The Sequences and Processes Involved in Extraction -- Chapter 5. Background to the Second Iharnba -- The Kawiko Vicinage -- Quarrels in the Past -- The Hunters' Conference: The Significance of the Hunter -- Trouble with Morie -- Chapter 6. The Second Ihamba: The Performance for Meru -- Chapter 7. Ritual and the Anthropology of Experience -- The Event as Fact: Subjectivity and Objectivity -- The Human Tooth -- Chapter 8. Seeing Spirits -- The Difficulties of the Healer Mode -- Coda -- Appendixes -- I. African Spirit Healing and Iharnba -- 2. Types of Spirit Healers -- 3. Medicines and Hallucinogens -- 4. Cupping with Horns -- 5. Music and Drumming -- Drums, N~orna -- Drumming in Ihamba -- Songs -- 6. The Extraction of Harmful Intrusions -- 7. A Composite Ihamba Scenario -- 8. Old and New Ihamba Compared -- 9. Matriliny, Rituals, and Religions: The 1985 Ndcmbu -- 10. Maps -- 11. Abridged Genealou of the Kahona Family -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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