The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-StructureTransaction Publishers, 31.12.2011 - 213 Seiten 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 small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice. As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports." |
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... called the co-occurrence of these motives "structure" and "anti-structure"; and a reentry into the everyday world. Of these three moves, the most important for Turner's critical and descriptive purposes was the mimetic phase, for here ...
... called the co-occurrence of these motives "structure" and "anti-structure"; and a reentry into the everyday world. Of these three moves, the most important for Turner's critical and descriptive purposes was the mimetic phase, for here ...
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... called "subjunctive worlds." As he developed his ideas, he became more aware of the importance of the experiential sharing taking place in the achievement of communitas. If the political movements of the t96os responded to this element ...
... called "subjunctive worlds." As he developed his ideas, he became more aware of the importance of the experiential sharing taking place in the achievement of communitas. If the political movements of the t96os responded to this element ...
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... called for the longer-paced interactions through which all of the participants would learn from each other. To these intense engagements he committed himself totally and joyfully. The friends he made there remember these moments perhaps ...
... called for the longer-paced interactions through which all of the participants would learn from each other. To these intense engagements he committed himself totally and joyfully. The friends he made there remember these moments perhaps ...
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... called "the inside view" of an alien culture, which might well have made comprehensible many of its seemingly bizarre components and interrelations. Indeed, Morgan might have pondered with salutary effect Bachofen's (i960) words to him ...
... called "the inside view" of an alien culture, which might well have made comprehensible many of its seemingly bizarre components and interrelations. Indeed, Morgan might have pondered with salutary effect Bachofen's (i960) words to him ...
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... called "the imaginative and emotional nature" have come to be regarded with respect and attention and investigated with scientific rigor. Freud has found in the fantasies of neurotics, in the ambiguities of dream imagery, in wit and ...
... called "the imaginative and emotional nature" have come to be regarded with respect and attention and investigated with scientific rigor. Freud has found in the fantasies of neurotics, in the ambiguities of dream imagery, in wit and ...
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure Victor Turner,Roger D Abrahams,Alfred Harris Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2017 |
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