The Forest of Symbols
Subtitle: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual
Publisher: Cornell university press
Published: January 1969
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780801404320
Subjects: Ndembu (African people)
First sentence: AMONG the Ndembu of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), the importance of ritual in the lives of the villagers in 1952 was striking.