The interpretation of ritual : Essays in honour of A. I. Richards / Ed. by J. S. La Fontaine.

Includes bibliogr. references

Introduction, by J. S. La Fontaine. - Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth. - Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody. - Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall. - Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R. G. Abrahams. - Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener. - Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J. S. La Fontaine. - The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson. - The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach. - Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott. - The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach.- A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott. - Appendix, by E. Leach. - Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289)