Experiencing Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiencing Ritual write by Edith Turner. This book was released on 1992-03. Experiencing Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings—the view of millions of Africans—that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.
Experiencing Ritual
Experiencing Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiencing Ritual write by Edith Turner. This book was released on 2011-06-03. Experiencing Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings—the view of millions of Africans—that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.
Experiencing Ritual
Experiencing Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiencing Ritual write by Edith L. B. Turner. This book was released on 1992. Experiencing Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scene is Zambia in 1985. A patient has been invaded by the tooth of a dead hunter, a spirit object which causes her much pain. Only a drum ritual can cure it. The company starts to sing and drum, and when at last the dramatic climax breaks, the anthropologist sees a six-inch blob--a kind of plasma or gray spherical ghost--emerging from the patient's back. Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Turner's experience with the Ndembu is extensive; from 1951 to 1954 she and her husband, the preeminent anthropologist Victor Turner, conducted fieldwork among them. This fieldwork formed the basis for Victor Turner's highly influential work, The Drums of Affliction. In that study, Victor Turner analyzed the Ihamba in terms of its social and psychological functions, but dismissed the Ndembu view that the real context of the Ihamba is spiritual. When Edith Turner returned to the Ndembu in 1985, she learned what she and Victor did not learn during their early fieldwork--how to understand the Ihamba in Ndembu terms. Through her richly detailed analysis of the ritual and her willingness to make the spirit central to her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings--the view of millions of Africans--that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power. This provocative and challenging work will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, African studies, and religious studies.
Rethinking Pluralism
Rethinking Pluralism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Pluralism write by Adam B. Seligman. This book was released on 2012-08-29. Rethinking Pluralism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is to say, the challenge of pluralism in our world. They show that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience may attune more closely with contemporary problems of living with difference.
Yuwipi
Yuwipi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yuwipi write by William K. Powers. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Yuwipi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance. The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Wayne Runs Again, suffering from alcoholism and worried about his father?s health, seeks out a shaman who, while bound in darkness, calls on supernatural beings to free him and to communicate. While the young man undergoes purification in a sweat lodge and waits on a hill for a vision, the community prays for him and his father. The ceremony serves not only to cure the sick but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society.
