The Forest of Symbols: Aspects Of Ndembu Ritual By Victor Turner
Book The Forest of symbols by john 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 The Forest of Symbols Aspects Of Ndembu RitualThe best essay in here was Muchona the Hornet a portrait of the anthropologist s favorite informant previously published in In the Company of Man Also excellent was A Ndembu Doctor in Practice which shows how the diviner untangles all the bad vibes in the social relations around the patient and then makes all the key players take active part in a healing ritual before the entire village I wish our tribe did that when someone has psychosomatic symptoms that the doctor calls in family members co workers bosses local politicians and makes everyone confess publicly all the b. Book The Forest of symbols by john s between them all the while putting on an amazing show with trances sleight of hand blood music and frightening supernatural threats that would be great The longest of the ten essays in here is about the Ndembu rite of circumcision That went on way too long and all the characters got confusing the way Russian novels sometimes do When I read anthropology I want to either be carried away to an unfamiliar culture or else I want stuff to think about ideas that shake up the common sense about human nature This book had moments of both but wasn t very consistent for me Also I wanted to be in the forest but the Ndembu are actually villagers Or at least they were at the time this was written Turner goes over and over in detail the multifaceted symbolic significance of various trees used in Ndembu ritual and I had a hard time seeing The Forest of Symbols for the trees 417 Interesting I d advise reading it but doing so critically so as to not fall prey to the sort of colonized knowledge he utilizes 417 Turner 1967 reports Marwick 1952 via Douglas 1963 When Cewa social relations become intolerably strained witch beliefs help to dissolve relations that have become redundant they blast down the dilapidated parts of the social structure and clear the rubble in preparation for new ones Turner parenthetically wonders What kind of structure one is prompted to ask is this forced abstract or reinforced concrete but the question ought to be What has any of this to do with witchcraft The explanation if that is what it is in terms of social structure does absolutely nothing to explain why it is precisely witch beliefs that are supposed to help in this way And this is what anthropological and psychological explanations generally look like lacking any direct grasp of the phenomenon in view or even willingness to attempt any such thing given what they take to be its patent irrationality or if they are condescending enough pseudo rationality they simply substitute another on which they feel they have a theoretical handle and then publish themselves into a career in defence of this transparent bait and switch The point is it is not or not primarily a failure of intelligence it s that you can know an awful lot about something without understanding the first thing about it 417 Very insightful if you are interested in rituals and the aspects of ritual process The chapter on color classification was really interesting 417 Am I winking or am I winking 417
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Collection of 10 articles previously published on various aspects of ritual symbolism among the Ndembu of Zambia p.83 4 brief mention of C