Victor Turner (1920–1983)
Author of The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
About the Author
Works by Victor Turner
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth, and Ritual Series) (1974) 161 copies
Schism and continuity in an African society : a study of Ndembu village life (1957) 36 copies, 1 review
The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu of Zambia (1968) 22 copies, 1 review
On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience (The Anthropology of Form and Meaning) (1986) 11 copies
The Lozi peoples of North-Western Rhodesia. West Central Africa / Part III (2017) 4 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto (1978) — Foreword — 379 copies, 5 reviews
Myth and Cosmos: Readings in Mythology and Symbolism (Texas Press sourcebooks in anthropology) (1967) — Contributor — 79 copies
Betwixt & Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation (1987) — Contributor — 70 copies, 1 review
The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Contributor — 38 copies
Religions in Antiquity: Essays in Memory of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1970) — Contributor — 7 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Turner, Victor
- Legal name
- Turner, Victor Witter
- Birthdate
- 1920-05-28
- Date of death
- 1983-12-18
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Manchester (Ph.D|1955)
University College London (BA|1949) - Occupations
- anthropologist
ethnographer
professor - Organizations
- University of Chicago (professor in social thought)
Cornell University (professor of anthropology)
Manchester University (senior lecturer in social anthropology)
University of Zambia (Institute for African Studies | as Rhodes-Livingstone Institute | senior research officer)
British Army (WWII) - Awards and honors
- Society for Humanistic Anthropology (Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing | annual award named after him first awarded | 1990)
- Relationships
- Turner, Edith (spouse|1943|his death|1983)
Turner, Frederick (son, Frederick Turner-1) - Cause of death
- heart attack
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Place of death
- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- Map Location
- Scotland
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Reviews
I loved this book when I first read it for Anthro 101 back in the day. I have found it extremely useful in many aspects of my own life and work. I've never forgotten it. In fact, I crack it open once in a while to flip through and re-acquaint myself.
A classic in the field of anthropology.
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