Abstract
This paper aims to explain some aspects of the thought which lies in "etiology" among the Abakuria, a Bantu-speaking people, of Kenya, describing ritual actions against "the dead". Generally speaking, there are two types of ways of coping with causal factors of misfortunes, that is, "excluding" these factors from the domain of the life-world ; and "including" or re-admitting them. In the Kuria, we indeed find both types, "excluding" and "including", but ritual actions in the case where "the dead" are pointed out as a causal factor of misfortune by diviners are always the "including" type.
