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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... importance in the development of his ideas even when her name was not listed alongside his. They carried out a great deal of fieldwork together, and she accompanied him at many of the conferences and seminars. After the war he ...
... importance in the development of his ideas even when her name was not listed alongside his. They carried out a great deal of fieldwork together, and she accompanied him at many of the conferences and seminars. After the war he ...
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... important for Turner's critical and descriptive purposes was the mimetic phase, for here the all-important confrontation of everyday norms took place through socially subversive and ritually inversive acts. To be sure, the widespread ...
... important for Turner's critical and descriptive purposes was the mimetic phase, for here the all-important confrontation of everyday norms took place through socially subversive and ritually inversive acts. To be sure, the widespread ...
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... importance of the experiential sharing taking place in the achievement of communitas. If the political movements of the ... important place during his own lifetime. He saw matters of culture somewhat differently from Emile Durkheim, the ...
... importance of the experiential sharing taking place in the achievement of communitas. If the political movements of the ... important place during his own lifetime. He saw matters of culture somewhat differently from Emile Durkheim, the ...
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... important rational aspect, and his belief that what appears "grotesque" to the highly "evolved" consciousness of a nineteenthcentury savant must be, ipso facto, largely "unintelligible." They also betray in him a related unwillingness ...
... important rational aspect, and his belief that what appears "grotesque" to the highly "evolved" consciousness of a nineteenthcentury savant must be, ipso facto, largely "unintelligible." They also betray in him a related unwillingness ...
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... importance of religious beliefs and practices, for both the maintenance and radical transformation of human social and psychical structures. The reader will perhaps be relieved to hear that I have no intention of entering the ...
... importance of religious beliefs and practices, for both the maintenance and radical transformation of human social and psychical structures. The reader will perhaps be relieved to hear that I have no intention of entering the ...
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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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