Abstract
When I made a field trip to Lagos, Nigeria (June 1977) to study local music and dance, it made no difference that it was a city or that it was becoming "modern" ? I was quickly disoriented. Having studied the theory and practice of ritual for several years I understood, of course, that the occasions for ritual trans? formation were customarily classified by an? thropologists as "life crises." My trip to Nigeria could not be placed in such a category; I looked nevertheless, to traditional descriptions of ritual to locate the encounter in a larger per? spective. One, from Mircea Eliade's Rites and Symbols of Initiation was sufficiently embrac? ing:
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