The ritual process: structure and anti-structure

by Turner, Victor W., (Victor Witter)

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Full title :The ritual process : structure and anti-structure / Victor Turner ; with a foreword by Roger D. Abrahams.

Summary

Publisher's Description: "In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his concept of "Communitas," which in the meantime has become famous. 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 an 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'."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1969

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):AldineTransaction
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1969

Notes

Originally published: 1969.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780202368634, 0202368637
oclc:ocn870999986
LC Classification:GN473
Dewey Decimal:306.6

Planes of classification in a ritual of life and death. -- Paradoxes of twinship in Ndembu ritual. -- Liminality and communitas. -- Communitas: model and process. -- Humility and hierarchy: the liminality of status elevation and reversal.

Subjects

Ndembu (African people) -- Rites and ce… Ndembu (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Rites et c… POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Rites and ceremonies Rites et cérémonies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture social structure Structure sociale Symbolism