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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... rites of transformation, like initiation, healing rituals, or those involving social elevation, his literary ... rite and celebration provided a gateway to real experiences, not just a mental storage and retrieval apparatus. If the ...
... rites of transformation, like initiation, healing rituals, or those involving social elevation, his literary ... rite and celebration provided a gateway to real experiences, not just a mental storage and retrieval apparatus. If the ...
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... most formidable power in French social science at the time. Not until the t96os in the United States did the overarching systematic pattern of rites of transition come to be identified with van Gennep. In that X FOREWORD.
... most formidable power in French social science at the time. Not until the t96os in the United States did the overarching systematic pattern of rites of transition come to be identified with van Gennep. In that X FOREWORD.
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... rites of elevation, initiation, healing, incorporation, and transience, to show how this system operated as a way of marking life process in the experience of the people among whom he had lived and worked. In a series of studies ...
... rites of elevation, initiation, healing, incorporation, and transience, to show how this system operated as a way of marking life process in the experience of the people among whom he had lived and worked. In a series of studies ...
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... rites with long periods of seclusion in the bush for the training of novices in esoteric lore, often associated with the presence of masked dancers, who portray ancestral spirits or deities. The Ndembu, together with their northern and ...
... rites with long periods of seclusion in the bush for the training of novices in esoteric lore, often associated with the presence of masked dancers, who portray ancestral spirits or deities. The Ndembu, together with their northern and ...
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... rites, a lessexuberant symbolism, and no boys' circumcision ceremonies; and their diverse religious practices are less closely articulated with one another. When I began field work among the Ndembu, I worked in the tradition established ...
... rites, a lessexuberant symbolism, and no boys' circumcision ceremonies; and their diverse religious practices are less closely articulated with one another. When I began field work among the Ndembu, I worked in the tradition established ...
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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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