Full name: The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual

Author: Victor Turner Year: 1967 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Anthropology, Anthology, Religion, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780801491016 0801491010

Collection of 10 articles previously published on various aspects of ritual symbolism among the Ndembu of Zambia; p.83-4; brief mention of C.P. Mountford on Aboriginal colour symbolism; Primarly for use in cultural comparison. "This is a collection of ten essays dealing with various aspects of symbolism and ritual among the Ndembu of Zambia in central Africa. . . . 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. . . It provides one of the few postwar studies sure to rank as an ethnographic classic."-Africa "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."-American Anthropologist Similar books: The Ritual Process by Victor Turner The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The Mountain People by Colin M. Turnbull Local Knowledge by Clifford Geertz The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Natural Symbols by Mary Douglas Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss Our Kind by Marvin Harris The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski The Evolution of Human Societies by Allen W. Johnson Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson Exit Zero by Christine J. Walley The Women of Deh Koh by Erika Friedl Yemen Chronicle by Steven C. Caton Two Bits by Christopher M. Kelty