It combines unusually complete ethnographic description based upon field work among the Ndembu of Zambia, with remarkable theoretical sophistication. Published nearly 50 years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find.From the dust jacket: "A pioneering work of high quality, this collection of anthropological studies provides one of the most detailed records available for an African society - or indeed for any groups - of the smeantics of ritual symbolism. Scarce.A solid and attractive scarce book. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1967. THE FOREST OF SYMBOLS: ASPECTS OF NDEMBU RITUAL.
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