It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors by Victor Turner
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The 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 and a half years of fieldwork, Victor Turner offers two thorough ethnographic studies of Ndembu revelatory ritual and divinatory techniques,...
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors by Victor Turner is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors aloud.
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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