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The Ritual Process - Structure and Anti-Structure (Hardcover)
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The Ritual Process - Structure and Anti-Structure (Hardcover)
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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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