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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
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 demo...more
Paperback, 230 pages
Published
December 31st 1995
by Aldine Transaction
(first published January 1st 1969)
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kita mundur sedikit, turner adalah seorang sarjana berlatar belakang antropologi. paradigma karl marx dan weber sangat kuat mempengaruhi pemikirannya. ini dapat kita lihat dari konsep "liminality", yaitu keberadaan sesuatu di antara dunia materi dan sakral. pandangan ini tentu saja pernah mempengaruhi di antaranya Hubert & Mauss dengan konsep "sacrifier", atau louis dumont dengan "encompassing"-nya, dilanjutkan oleh "system symbol" geertz. terakhir malah karya seperti turner juga diterapkan...more
Somehow I think it would have been much more fun to be in a graduate seminar at the University of Chicago with Professor Turner or even a bar on the South Side listening to the Blues applying all that knowledge, insight and creativity. I have heard some good stories. This book is definitely for the anthropology minded. But the liminal mind as accessed through ritual whether African, Episcopalian (and now I guess we have both joined being the African Episcopalians are a major force in that branch...more
Interpretive Frameworks: Symbolic and Interpretive Analysis
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
In The Ritual Process Victor Turner puts forth his concepts of liminality, communitas, structure and anti-structure; further, he demonstrates, through his study of cultural symbols, how individuals give meaning to their world and how this reality can be understood and interpreted through the purpose and function of the ritual process. Highly influenced by A. R. Radcliffe-B...more
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
In The Ritual Process Victor Turner puts forth his concepts of liminality, communitas, structure and anti-structure; further, he demonstrates, through his study of cultural symbols, how individuals give meaning to their world and how this reality can be understood and interpreted through the purpose and function of the ritual process. Highly influenced by A. R. Radcliffe-B...more
Throughout his career, Turner was fascinated by rituals and the ritual process, In this book he builds on theories he developed in "The Forest of Symbols" as he spent several years studying the Ndembu tribes in Zambia, coming up with an extremely profound and influential accounts on the ritual process. Building on Arnold Van Gennep's theories, Turner defines the ritual process as consisting of three phases: a pre-liminal phase (separation), a liminal phase (transition), and a post-liminal phase...more
Victor Turner entwickelte in seinem 1969 erschienen Buch "Das Ritual: Struktur und Anti-Struktur" einen neuen Begriff von Gesellschaft: Gesellschaft als einem zyklischen Prozess, in dem sich Struktur und Anti-Struktur (Communitas) abwechseln.
Eine besondere Bedeutung für die Organisation des menschlichen Lebens kommen Übergangsrituale zu, die einen Transformationsprozess begleiten. Diese Rituale verlaufen in drei Phasen: Die erste bzw. die letzte Phase trennen vom alten ab bzw. gliedern an den ne...more
Eine besondere Bedeutung für die Organisation des menschlichen Lebens kommen Übergangsrituale zu, die einen Transformationsprozess begleiten. Diese Rituale verlaufen in drei Phasen: Die erste bzw. die letzte Phase trennen vom alten ab bzw. gliedern an den ne...more
Understanding the life stage model through the ritual process that is put forth by Victor Turner.
there's veritas... and then there's turner's communitas.
yea dude.
yea dude.
An interesting book to read though a bit slow, and it is more about the Ndemba Rituals than anything.
There wasn't anything particularly wrong with this book, but I found it pretty boring
This is one of Turner's earlier works. It is a collection of lectures and therefore less dense than other works. It is primarily a development of van Gennep's theory of liminality in rites of passage. Turner's big contribution is the idea that those who are in the process of a rite of passage and are therefore separated from the social structure and not yet integrated back into the social structure themselves constitute a community.
Aug 20, 2007
Patrick Oden
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Recommends it for:
anthropologists or anyone interested in society in transition
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A classic of anthropology. Victor Turner here describes the concepts of liminality and communitas, the states of transition from one structure to a higher structure. This transition and the community formed by sharing this transition is assessed by description of African tribal rituals and then discussed more broadly in terms of consistent human behavior in many traditions.
Foundational.
Foundational.
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the beginning was great but it tottered off in the end.
this is definitely a book to slog through, but it is also a seminal work on the numinous experience--indeed on many sorts of healing experience. Turner turns an anthropologist's eye on ritual. It will change the way you view reality.
I fell asleep reading the excerpt required from this text....
Beautiful.
Hippies.
Uh... problematic.
Hippies.
Uh... problematic.
A classic in the field of anthropology.
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