Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801491517
ISBN13:9780801491511
Release Date:October 1975
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Dramas, Fields and Metaphors
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
One of more important anthropologists from twenty century. Turner look for understood the "ritual" in its much perspectives. This book have a series of articles referring to this theme.
Masterful Essays in Symbolic Anthropology
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
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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