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The Ritual Process
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Author : Victor Turner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Ritual Process written by Victor Turner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
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."
The Ritual Process
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Author : Victor Witter Turner
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1974
The Ritual Process written by Victor Witter Turner and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Cross-cultural studies categories.
The Ritual Process
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Author : Victor Witter Turner
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company
Release Date : 1969
The Ritual Process written by Victor Witter Turner and has been published by Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Religion categories.
The Ritual Process
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Author : Victor Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
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The Ritual Process
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Author : Victor Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
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The Ritual Process
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Author : Victor Witter Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Ritual A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Barry Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-28
Ritual A Very Short Introduction written by Barry Stephenson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Religion categories.
Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Science Magic And Religion
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Author : Mary Bouquet
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
Science Magic And Religion written by Mary Bouquet and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Exploring the idea of the museum as a ritual site, this volume looks at contemporary experience across Europe and Africa to reveal the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such places
From Ritual To Theatre
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Author : Victor Witter Turner
language : en
Publisher: New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Release Date : 1982
From Ritual To Theatre written by Victor Witter Turner and has been published by New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Drama categories.
Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement
The Archetype Of Initiation
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Author : Robert L. Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Archetype Of Initiation written by Robert L. Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This book urges contemporary healers to utilize premodern tribal principles of sacred space and ritual process long considered lost or inaccessible to modern culture. Properly prepared "ritual elders" can guide people through ritual steps from (a) the challenge of a life-crisis, into (b) sacred space and time for needed reorganization, and then into (c) a newly transformed personal and social world. These steps derive from key concepts in the scholarship of Arnold van Gennep, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, and Victor Turner, reformulated with new insights from extensive field research and psychoanalytic practice. "Here Robert Moore's deeply penetrating mind awakens us to the urgency of what time it is' time to reclaim the sense of sacred space in our secularized culture, time to grow a mature ritual leadership that can hold and steward that space, time to restore the processes of a comprehensive initiation into wholeness which alone can re-create a habitable world for humanity." Don Jones, Past International Chairman, The ManKind Project "These materials articulate my conviction that our species has evolved to the point where we either must continue to provide conscious, creative, and responsible rituals of life that serve the maturation and healing of all its people, or face the alternative of unconscious and destructive participation in rituals of personal, social, and global death." Author's Preface