pp. 1-31 Scope and Content: this article describes the labeling of deviants in Kilenge society. Deviants are defined by their interruption of two key activities in the society in question: production and reproduction. Sorcery as a form of deviance is considered. A draft of this paper was presented at the symposium Deviance in a Cross Cultural Context: An Ethnographic-Interactionist Perspective, held at the University of Waterloo in June, 1984.