In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America.Two chapters, which illustrate religious paradigms and political action, explore in detail the confrontation between Henry II and Thomas Becket and between Hidalgo, the Mexican liberator, and his former friends. Other essays deal with long-term religious processes, such as the Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the emergence of anti-caste movements in India. Finally, he directs his attention to other social phenomena such as transitional and marginal groups, hippies, and dissident religious sects, showing that in the very process of dying they give rise to new forms of social structure or revitalized versions of the old order.
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"In the present volume, Turner's remarkably original and wide-ranging mind examines social dramas, usually centering around religious personalities or sacred places, from medieval England to revolutionary Mexico to Zambia, in search of transitions between structure and anti-structure or 'communitas' and the symbols engendered by these processes."—Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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The role of culture in human societies is explored through a combination of empirical research and the nimble mind and imaginative powers of the late Victor Turner. This collection will prove especially useful to students of comparative religion, social/cultural anthropology, literature, performance, and the visual arts. Turner's essays are far from dry. They thrill with their ability to combine close observations of the "exotic" beliefs of non-Western peoples and cutting edge insights into more familiar cultural dimensions of everyday life in western Europe and the United States.
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One of more important anthropologists from Twenth Century. Turner look for understood the "ritual" in its much perspectives. This book have a series of articles referring to this theme.
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- The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure[ THE RITUAL PROCESS: STRUCTURE AND ANTI-STRUCTURE ] by Turner, Victor Witter (Author) Dec-31-95[ Paperback ] by Victor Witter Turner on 6 pages
- Political Anthropology by Marc J. Swartz on 4 pages
- The Gothic Cathedral by Otto Georg Von Simson on page 188, page 226, and page 230
- The Road to Santiago: Pilgrims of St. James (John Murray Travel Classics) by Walter Starkie on page 190, page 225, and page 230
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim on page 270, page 274, and page 298
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- Aztecs: An Interpretation (Canto) by Inga Clendinnen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology by T.M.S. Evens on page 93, page 155, and page 164
- God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture by Eric Michael Mazur on page 29, page 176, and page 280
- The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago by Stephen Stuempfle in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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