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.

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Two Books on Ihamba: The Effect of Victor Turner's Study	p. 5
Theorists of Ritual	p. 10
The Groundings of the Present Ethnographic Method	p. 15
The Field Context of the Ihamba Rituals in 1985	p. 18
Time Factor: History Continues Separately for Ndembu and Turners	p. 18
Returning to Mukanza Village	p. 23
The Ihamba Tooth	p. 29
The Medicine Quest for the First Ihamba	p. 31
Medicine Collection	p. 31
Medicine Preparation	p. 43
The First Ihamba: The Performance for Nyakanjata	p. 54
The First Tooth	p. 54
Commentary	p. 71
The Second Tooth	p. 74
Discussion of the First Ihamba	p. 83
Sakutoha	p. 83
Nyakanjata	p. 85
Healing and Hunters	p. 87
Mazu ("Words")	p. 89
Childbirth Medicines in Ihamba	p. 90
The Ambiguities in Ihamba	p. 92
The Sequences and Processes Involved in Extraction	p. 99
Background to the Second Ihamba	p. 103
The Kawiko Vicinage	p. 103
Quarrels in the Past	p. 106
The Hunters' Conference: The Significance of the Hunter	p. 108
Trouble with Morie	p. 124
The Second Ihamba: The Performance for Meru	p. 128
Ritual and the Anthropology of Experience	p. 159
The Event as Fact: Subjectivity and Objectivity	p. 160
The Human Tooth	p. 165
Seeing Spirits	p. 170
The Difficulties of the Healer Mode	p. 174
Coda	p. 178
1. African Spirit Healing and Ihamba	p. 181
2. Types of Spirit Healers	p. 185
3. Medicines and Hallucinogens	p. 188
4. Cupping with Horns	p. 191
5. Music and Drumming	p. 193
Drums, Ngoma	p. 193
Drumming in Ihamba	p. 193
Songs	p. 198
6. The Extraction of Harmful Intrusions	p. 200
7. A Composite Ihamba Scenario	p. 204
8. Old and New Ihamba Compared	p. 206
9. Matriliny, Rituals, and Religions: The 1985 Ndembu	p. 209
10. Maps	p. 211
11. Abridged Genealogy of the Kahona Family	p. 213
Notes	p. 215
References	p. 221
Index	p. 229
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