Revelation and Divination in Ndembu RitualThe core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'u), and an analysis of the system of ideas underlying more than a dozen modes of divination. Written by an internationally known social scientist, the book demonstrates how the study of small scale events may reveal as much about what it means to be a human being in society as do grand macrosocial and macrocultural surveys. Drawing on two