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.
Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289)