Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner

He believes that ritual symbols, like botanists' stains, enable us to detect and trace the movement of social processes and relationships that often lie below the level of direct observation. Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner 4.25 12 ratings1 review The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayongu), and an analysis of the system of ideas underlying more than a dozen modes of divination. Victor Witter Turner, Turner, Victor Symbol and Ritual. Y., 1975) analyzes the ritual drama Chihamba and compares its symbolism with that of Western religion. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca, N. Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual: Symbol, Myth, and Ritual is written by Victor Turner and published by Cornell University Press. Striking a personal note in the introductory chapter, Turner acknowledges his indebtedness to Ndembu ritualists for alerting him to the theoretical relevance of symbolic action in understanding human societies. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Chicago, 1969) studies curative rites and the twin ritual.

Written by an internationally-known social scientist, the book demonstrates how the study of small-scale events may reveal as much about what it means to be a human being in society as do grand macrosocial and macrocultural surveys.Drawing on two and a half years of fieldwork, Victor Turner offers two thorough ethnographic studies of Ndembu revelatory ritual and divinatory techniques, with running commentaries on symbolism by a variety of Ndembu informants. In Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual, he has reprinted, with updated and. The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'u), and an analysis of the system of ideas underlying more than a dozen modes of divination. Victor Turner is a master interpreter of symbol and ritual in social life.

Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner