TURNER, VICTOR WITTER (26 Ergebnisse)

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Illini Books Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 391 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: Experience and its expressions / Edward M. Bruner -- Dewey, dilthey, and drama: an essay in the anthropology of experience / Victor W. Turner -- Ordinary and extraordinary experience / Roger D. Abrahams -- Reflexivity as evolution in Thoreau's Walden / Frederck Turner -- Ilongot hunting as story and experience / Renato Rosaldo -- Ethnography as narrative / Edward M. Bruner -- The argument of images and the experience of returning to the whole / James W. Fernandez -- Performance and the structuring of meaning and experience / Bruce Kapferer -- Play and the problem of knowing in Hamlet: an excursion into interpretive anthropology / Phyllis Gorfain -- Symbols, sylphs, and siwa: allegorical machineries in the text of Balinese culture / James A. Boon -- "Life not death in Venice": its second life / Barbara Myerhoff -- Patronage and control in the Trinidad carnival / John Stewart -- Modeled selves: Helen Cordero's "Little People" / Barbara A. Babcock -- Magnitudes of performance / Richard Schechner -- Making experience, authoring selves / Clifford Geertz. Subjects: Ethnology Philosophy. Ethnology Methodology. Symbolic anthropology. Humanities Methodology. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with no DJ. Black Boards Gilt Title on Spine. First Edition. Slight tropical speckling to top Page Edge only, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.7 x 2.8 cm. Weight: 717 g. In this posthumous collection, Turner continues his quest for 'a liberated anthropology,' a cause helped in part by the recent postmodern consciousness." -- American Theatre. Victor W. Turner (b. 1920¿d. 1983) was a symbolic anthropologist whose comparative investigations of ritual and cultural performance left a unique impression in the social and human sciences, and across the arts. Turner became a prolific contributor to the comparative anthropology of ritual, symbol, and performance and had a prodigious impact across a spectrum of disciplines, from anthropology, religious and theological studies, to cultural, literary, and performance studies, to folklore, literary criticism, and neurosociology. As found in key monographs and numerous essays, his influential formulations on the ontological value of ritual symbolism, ¿liminality,¿ and culture were shaped by a lifelong passion for poetry, the classics, and stage drama. While Turner made a path beyond the Manchester School and Neo-Marxist analysis, he modified a structural-functionalist perspective in an abiding interest in universals in human performance and the fate of religion in postindustrial culture. A departure from social structure toward meaning coincided with a move to the United States, where Turner accepted an appointment as Professor of Anthropology and Chairman of the Committee on African Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1964¿1968), holding professorships in anthropology in the United States thereafter. It was during his life in the United States that Turner cut his teeth as an iconoclastic essayist and skillful orator ranging widely across disciplines. While Turner¿s ethnographic career began in Africa formulating his ¿social drama¿ model, subsequent investigations included Christian pilgrimage in Mexico and Ireland (as a practicing Catholic), Japanese literary and performative genres, New York¿s experimental Off-Off Broadway theater workshops, and the Carnaval in Rio. These and many other postindustrial performance genres or ¿cultural dramas¿ were understood via his ¿processual analysis,¿ which became integral to the formation of Performance Studies. While attracting controversy for expressing universalisms and his theological position, Turner¿s ideas have retained appeal in the study of contemporary cultural performance. There are no book-length biographies on Turner, presumably, in part, because his endeavor was uniquely interdisciplinary, anti-systematic, and perplexing¿even mystical. A fatal heart attack on 18 December 1983 cut short a very productive scholarly life, but at least we have his books.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with slight tropical speckling to Page Edges, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Includes index. Second Printing, Cornell paperbacks 1981. Includes bibliographical references. Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches. Weight: 1.1 pounds. "This is a collection of ten essays dealing with various aspects of symbolism and ritual among the Ndembu of Zambia in central Africa. . . . Using data of extraordinary richness, it presents some of the most provocative and suggestive theories recently advanced in the study of ritual behavior and symbolism. . . It provides one of the few postwar studies sure to rank as an ethnographic classic."¿Africa. Considered an ethnographic classic. Victor Turner, a professor at Cornell, was known for his work in both anthropology and the behavioral sciences. These essays go far beyond meticulous recording of Zambian ritual to examine the role of symbols in social processes. Topics include medicine, witchcraft, morality, social structure, rites of passage, color classification, and the role of symbols in so many aspects of tribal life. Photographs, charts, and lists. "A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner . . . are all seminal and distinguished."¿American Anthropologist.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Revised Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with minimal shelf wear marks and slight tropical speckling to Page Edges. Otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or other stains. xiii, 326 p. 13 plates, illus., tables, map. 23 cm. Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1 inches. Weight: 14.1 ounces. While at Stanford University, Victor Turner wrote The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu (1968). Turner shared the view that social order depends on rituals and ceremonial performances with Emile Durkheim. And he followed Edward Sapir's lead in asserting that culture is a "changing entity, influenced by 'root paradigms,' that is, by axiomatic frames, or deep myths, that propel and transform people and groups at critical moments" Turner agreed with Freud that studying disturbances in patterns offers better insight than does observing normal conditions. He found Kurt Lewin's notion of "social fields" useful in his processual models as was Alfred Schutz' phenomenological sociology which suggested that culture was a constantly negotiated set of meanings. In his dissertation, published as Schism and Continuity in African Society (1957), he introduced the concept of social dramas, which he elaborated on in later works. Social dramas exist as a result of the conflict that is inherent in societies. Social dramas are the "public episodes of tensional irruption" (1974:33). He also refers to them as "units of aharmonic or disharmonic process, arising in conflict situations" (1974:37). Based on his fieldwork among the Ndembu, Turner (1974) asserted that social dramas have "four main phases of public action, accessible to observation" (p. 38). The phases are breach, crisis, redressive action, and reintegration. The first phase is "signalized by the public, overt breach or deliberate nonfulfillment of some crucial norm regulating the intercourse of the parties" (ibid.). Once a breach occurs "a phase of mounting crisis supervenes" in which the breach widens and extends the separation between the parties. The crisis stage has "liminal characteristics, since it is a threshold between more or less stable phases of the social process" (Turner, 1974:39). The third phase of redressive action occurs to limit the spread of the crisis with "certain adjustive and redressive mechanisms . . . [which] are swiftly brought into operation by leading or structurally representative members of the disturbed social system" (ibid.). Turner contributed methodologically to the study of ritual symbols. He introduced the term multivocality to indicate that one symbol may stand for many things. As a result of the polysemous symbols, he suggested a triarchic approach to the study of meaning in ritual symbols. The meaning of symbols must incorporate the exegetical (i.e., indigenous) meaning, the operational meaning and the positional meaning. The exegetical meaning is obtained by "questioning indigenous informants about observed ritual behavior" (Turner, 1967:50). The operational meaning comes from observing what is done with the symbol, the structure and composition of the group that handles the symbol and the affective qualities of the handling of the symbol. The operational meaning also takes into account those groups that are excluded from interacting with the symbol. "The positional meaning of a symbol derives from its relationship to other symbols in a totality, a Gestalt, whose elements acquire their significance from the system as a whole" (Turner, 1967:51). Turner considered himself a comparative symbologist, which suggests he valued his contributions to the study of ritual symbols. It is in the closely related study of ritual processes that he had the most impact. The most important contribution Turner made to the field of anthropology is his work on liminality and communitas. Believing the liminal stage to be of "crucial importance" in the ritual process, Turner explored the idea of liminality more seriously.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Cover shows moderate surface wear, and superficial scuffs and bumped corners. Text unmarked and uncreased. Overall, a good used copy. Publisher's note: 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 special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers. Size: 23 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm. 391 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Anthropology; Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- Methodology; Symbolic anthropology; Humanities -- Methodology; Experience; ISBN: 0252012496. ISBN/EAN: 9780252012495. Add. Inventory No: 250711MM5912.

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nasse; Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrucken. Kniha Prubeh ritualu se brzy po svem vydani v roce 1969 zaradila mezi klasicka dila. Turner zde na zaklade vlastnich zkusenosti z terennich vyzkumu mezi africkymi kmeny dokazuje, ze analyza ritualniho chovani a symbolu muze byt vyuzita jako klic k pochopeni socialnich struktur a procesu. Navazuje na Van Gennepuv pojem ,liminalni faze", ktery rozsiruje na mnohem obecnejsi rovinu a vyuziva jej k osvetleni rozsahle oblasti socialnich jevu. Turner o sve knize napsal: ,.predstavuje pokus o osvobozeni mych vlastnich myslenek, a ja doufam, ze myslenek ostatnich take, od zkostnatele zavislosti na "strukture" jako jedinem sociologickem meritku.".

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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Risse; Farbveranderung durch Alter/Sonne. Kniha Prubeh ritualu se brzy po svem vydani v roce 1969 zaradila mezi klasicka dila. Turner zde na zaklade vlastnich zkusenosti z terennich vyzkumu mezi africkymi kmeny dokazuje, ze analyza ritualniho chovani a symbolu muze byt vyuzita jako klic k pochopeni socialnich struktur a procesu. Navazuje na Van Gennepuv pojem ,liminalni faze", ktery rozsiruje na mnohem obecnejsi rovinu a vyuziva jej k osvetleni rozsahle oblasti socialnich jevu. Turner o sve knize napsal: ,.predstavuje pokus o osvobozeni mych vlastnich myslenek, a ja doufam, ze myslenek ostatnich take, od zkostnatele zavislosti na "strukture" jako jedinem sociologickem meritku.".

Rústica (Tapa blanda). Zustand: Bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Sin cubierta. Materia: Antropología cultural y social. Características físicas: Libro en buen estado. Ubicación: R4B4-216. Estudio antropológico clásico en el que Victor W. Turner analiza los rituales de la sociedad ndembu del África central, centrándose en el simbolismo ritual y los procesos de transición social. A través de un enfoque simbólico e interpretativo, Turner desvela cómo los símbolos rituales condensan tensiones sociales, estructuran la experiencia colectiva y median cambios de estatus. Obra fundamental para antropólogos, sociólogos y estudiosos de la religión y la cultura simbólica. LIBRO.

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Inhalt: Planes of Classification in a Ritual of Life and Death, Paradoxes of Twinship in Ndembu Ritual u.v.m. Zustand: Seiten mit wenigen Bleistiftmarkierungen, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! 213 Seiten, wenige Abbildungen Englisch 250g 8° (18,5-22,5 cm), Taschenbuch, Kartoniert.

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1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 405 pages, [10] p. of plates: ill., geneal. tables; 22 cm. Contents: pt. 1. Symbols in Ndembu ritual -- Ritual symbolism morality and social structure among the Ndembu -- Color classification in Ndembu ritual: a problem in primitive classification -- Betwixt and between: the liminal period in rites de passage -- Witchcraft and sorcery: taxonomy versus dynamics -- pt. 2. Muchona the Hornet, interpreter of religion -- Mukanda: the rite of circumcision -- Themes in the symbolism of Ndembu hunting ritual -- Lunda medicine and the treatment of disease -- A Ndembu doctor in practice. Subjects: Ndembu (African people) Rites and ceremonies. Rites and ceremonies Zambia. Rituals Ndembu Africa Traditional societies Social anthropology. Ndembu (African people). 1 Kg.