Contents
Prologue: Exploring the Trail, by Edith Turner
1. Encounter with Freud: The Making of a Comparative Symbologist
2. Death and the Dead in the Pilgrimage Process
3. Variations on a Theme of Liminality
4. African Ritual and Western Literature: Is a Comparative Symbology Possible?
5. Sacrifice as Quintessential Process: Prophylaxis or Abandonment?
6. The Kannokura Festival at Shingu: The Symbolism of Sun, Fire, and Light
7. Morality and Liminality
Notes
References
Index