Introduction / W. Arens and Ivan Karp -- The power of incest / W. Arens -- Midnight charters : Musa Wo and Mende myths of chaos / Donald J. Cosentino -- The power of articulation / Bonnie L. Wright -- Sources of power in Akuropon-Akuapem : ambiguity in classification / Michelle Gilbert -- Power and capacity in rituals of possession / Ivan Karp -- Power begins at home : the symbolism of male-female commensality in Ufipa / Roy Willis -- Dance and power in Bafut (Cameroon) / Ronald K. Engard -- Ritual and ambiguity in Lugbara society / John Middleton -- Power, sanctity, and symbolism in the political economy of the Nilotes / Aidan Southall -- The sacred and the secret : order and chaos in Tigray medicine and politics / Dan Bauer. Witches, kings, and the sacrifice of identity, or The power of paradox and the paradox of power among the Beng of Ivory Coast / Alma Gottlieb -- Transfers of power : the king and the secret society in a time of crisis / Victoria Ebin -- Ritual rivalry among the Ben'Ekie / Nancy J. Fairley.
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