Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.69138
EAN: 9780202011905
ISBN: 0202011909
Label: Aldine Transaction
Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 230
Publication Date: December 31, 1995
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Sales Rank: 45278
Studio: Aldine Transaction

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates in these pages 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.




Rating: - It all starts here...
Whether one agrees with him or not, ritual studies as a sub-field straddling anthropology, ethnography and religious studies begins with Victor Turner, and if you want to understand it you need to know this book intimately. Whether or not ritual studies has really moved beyond Victor Turner is a hot topic of debate for those of us who deal with this area of research...but whether or not you need to know him is a given, and it all starts with this text.

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Rating: - landmark work
Victor Turner is one of the great names in anthropology and this is a classic work of analysis of social rituals. He takes van Gennep's theories on rites of passage to a new level, examining how different elements of festivals and rites function.

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