Victor O Turner

Between Theater and Anthropology

In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others...

The Anthropology of Performance (PAJ Books)

Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body, Brain, and Culture" links cerebral neurology and a...

The Anthropology of Experience

Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of sp...

Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (Columbia Classics in Religion)

First published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and sustaining Christian pilgrimage. The book examines two major aspects of pilgrimage practice: the significance ...

From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (PAJ Books)

How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from A...

Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth, and Ritual Series)

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...

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Foundations of Human Behavior)

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a smal...

Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

A classic work that examines the theological doctrines, popular notions & corresponding symbols & images promoting & sustaining Christian pilgrimage.

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure

The Anthropology of Experience

The Anthropology of Experience

On the Edge of the Bush : Anthropology As Experience

Process Performance and Pilgrimage

Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual

Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual

Between Theater and Anthropology