books.google.com - Chinua Achebe's THINGS FALL APART stands as much a piece of cultural anthropology as it is a work of literature. It is a balanced, living portrait of a civilization and culture, a way of life, that existed for thousands of years before the coming of colonialism. The publication of THINGS FALL APART was...https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Reader_s_Guide_to_Chinua_Achebe_s_Thin.html?id=4igK1YcB8dQC&q=ritual&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Reader's Guide to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart