The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-StructureTransaction Publishers, 31/12/2011 - 213 páginas 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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... movement of symbolic anthropology, Turner illuminated his subject with observations based on his broad reading in literature and philosophy, especially in the areas of semiotics and structuralism. His lifework led him to explore the ...
... movement of symbolic anthropology, Turner illuminated his subject with observations based on his broad reading in literature and philosophy, especially in the areas of semiotics and structuralism. His lifework led him to explore the ...
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... movements took to the streets and a whole generation became entranced with alternative life styles and the open possibility of opting for social marginality. Turner's discussion of the "betwixt-and-between" states became a way to teach ...
... movements took to the streets and a whole generation became entranced with alternative life styles and the open possibility of opting for social marginality. Turner's discussion of the "betwixt-and-between" states became a way to teach ...
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... movements of the t96os responded to this element in Turnerian thought, the turn toward altered states of consciousness as part of a sociopsychological pattern of development became the most attractive feature of this approach to ritual ...
... movements of the t96os responded to this element in Turnerian thought, the turn toward altered states of consciousness as part of a sociopsychological pattern of development became the most attractive feature of this approach to ritual ...
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... movements and words mean to them. To obtain enlightenment, I had recourse at first to the District Notebook, a compilation of random jottings by officers of the Colonial Administration on events and customs that struck them as ...
... movements and words mean to them. To obtain enlightenment, I had recourse at first to the District Notebook, a compilation of random jottings by officers of the Colonial Administration on events and customs that struck them as ...
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