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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... framework of the American seminar and small conference, when he could relax animatedly with his colleagues and friends. From the mid-t96os well into the t98os he served as master of ceremonies of a group of social and cultural critics ...
... framework of the American seminar and small conference, when he could relax animatedly with his colleagues and friends. From the mid-t96os well into the t98os he served as master of ceremonies of a group of social and cultural critics ...
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Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. dance of meanings that ... social elevation, his literary interests encouraged him to attend to the ... composition—ways of describing the practices of traditional peoples celebrating together ...
Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. dance of meanings that ... social elevation, his literary interests encouraged him to attend to the ... composition—ways of describing the practices of traditional peoples celebrating together ...
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Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. Along with Dell Hymes and ... social, economic, political, and religious practices in the terms used by ... social upheaval and war of those years. Turner's prescience in relating the ...
Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. Along with Dell Hymes and ... social, economic, political, and religious practices in the terms used by ... social upheaval and war of those years. Turner's prescience in relating the ...
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Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. He extended the analytic framework ... social states led his detractors to accuse him of blurring important ... social historians to pay ever greater attention to the symbolic cultural dimensions ...
Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. He extended the analytic framework ... social states led his detractors to accuse him of blurring important ... social historians to pay ever greater attention to the symbolic cultural dimensions ...
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Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. through the ritual could share in both the positive and negative capabilities of the human experience, through acts which simultaneously elevated and inverted social position. The realm of ...
Structure and Anti-Structure Victor W. Turner. through the ritual could share in both the positive and negative capabilities of the human experience, through acts which simultaneously elevated and inverted social position. The realm of ...
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure Victor Turner,Roger D Abrahams,Alfred Harris Pré-visualização limitada - 2017 |
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